QUOTES by Daphne Du Maurier
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"I was like a little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect, and he kinder, and far more inaccessible."
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"...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men."
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"The house was a sepulcher, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection."
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"Oh, God, I though, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall bow to the audience, and go off to our dressing-rooms."
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"Tact was a quality unknown to her, discretion too, and because gossip was the breath of life to her this stranger must be served for her dissection."
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"Do you know so little about children, Monsieur Jean,' she asked, 'that you imagine, because they don't cry, therefore they feel nothing? If so, you're much mistaken."
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"But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness."
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"The feel of her own pillow, and of her own blankets reassured her. Both were familiar. And being tired was familiar too, it was a solid bodily ache, like the tiredness after too much jumping or cricket."
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"Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand."
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"....but in future keep the things that hurt to myself alone. They can be my secret indulgence."
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"...I will shed no more tears, like a spoilt child. For whatever happens we have had what we have had. No one can take that from us. And I have been alive, who was never alive before."
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"She would have stood by Giles’s side, and shaken hands with people, a smile on her face. I could not do that. I had not the pride, I had not the guts. I was badly bred."
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"And he went on eating his marmalade as though everything were natural."
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"Maxim's voice, clear and strong, "Will someone take my wife outside?She is going to faint."
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"As I stood there,hushed and still,I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before."
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"But the point is this Monsieur...the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because, so she tells me, you make immorality delicious."
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"And, though there should be a world of difference between the smile of a man and the bared fangs of a wolf, with Joss Merlyn they were one and the same."
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"It's funny,' I noted in the diary, 'how often I seem to build a story around one sentence, nearly always the last one, too. The themes are a bit depressing but I just can't get rid of that."
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"There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair"
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"You have blotted out the past for me, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo."
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"I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five."
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"How pleasant,' Dona said, peeling her fruit; 'the rest of us can only run away from time to time, and however much we pretend to be free, we know it is only for a little while - our hands and our feet are tied."
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"If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand."
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"…you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind."
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"So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot."
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"From the very first, I knew that it would be so...I smiled to myself, and said, "That -- and none other."
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"People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine."
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"I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite."
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"All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them."
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"Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?"
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"A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work."
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"No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all."
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