To others we are not ...

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.
 Elizabeth Bibesco

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Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.
 Elizabeth Bibesco
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
 Elizabeth Bibesco
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
 Elizabeth Bibesco