Daphne du Maurier Short Quotes

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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

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It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.

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How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.

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Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.

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There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.

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Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

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I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

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It doesn't do to be curious at Jamaica Inn, and I'll have you remember that.

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Ideas for stories began to crowd thick and fast, like people waiting for a train.

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The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

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She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.

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I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

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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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Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.

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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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No person will ever get into my blood as a place can... People and things pass away, but not places.

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Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

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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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I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.

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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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But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

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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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He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now.

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I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

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Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

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Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

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The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.

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A character or an idea has to grow like a seed and take possession…it's something to do with one's own development and passage through life.

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We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

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