A Quote by Elizabeth Bibesco

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Elizabeth Bibesco

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Elizabeth Bibesco
British - Poet
February 26, 1897 - April 7, 1945

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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

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May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.

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But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.

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I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

Andrew Solomon

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Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

Mike Brown

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