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> [I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/i-wondered-why-it-was-that-places-are-so-much-lovelier-when-one-is/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

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## More by Daphne du Maurier

> [He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/he-lacked-tenderness-he-was-rude-and-he-had-more-than-a-streak-of/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [“You understand now... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/you-understand-now-how-simple-life-becomes-when-things-like-mirrors/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/i-could-fight-with-the-living-but-i-could-not-fight-the-dead-if-there/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/it-wouldn-t-make-for-sanity-would-it-living-with-the-devil/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [“The only time I got into trouble was when I forged M's signature on the weekly report we had to take home every Friday…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/the-only-time-i-got-into-trouble-was-when-i-forged-m-s-signature-on/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/they-are-not-brave-the-days-when-we-are-twenty-one-they-are-full-of/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/women-want-love-to-be-a-novel-men-a-short-story/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [“We all of us have our particular devil who ruses us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/we-all-of-us-have-our-particular-devil-who-ruses-us-and-torments-us/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [“Happy in his silence yet eager for his words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/happy-in-his-silence-yet-eager-for-his-words/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [“There have been men in arid deserts where the sun has so disfigured them that they have become things of horror – parched and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/there-have-been-men-in-arid-deserts-where-the-sun-has-so-disfigured/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [“Packing up. The nagging worry of departure. When shutting drawers and flinging wide an hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/packing-up-the-nagging-worry-of-departure-when-shutting-drawers-and/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [“And perhaps one day, in after years, someone would wander there and listen to the silence, as she had done, and catch the whisper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/and-perhaps-one-day-in-after-years-someone-would-wander-there-and/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [“You thought I was mad. Perhaps I was. Perhaps I am. It doesn't make for sanity, does it, living with the devil.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/you-thought-i-was-mad-perhaps-i-was-perhaps-i-am-it-doesn-t-make-for/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [“many impressions to seize and hold, familiar loved façades, balconies, windows, water lapping the cellar steps of decaying palaces, the little red house where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/many-impressions-to-seize-and-hold-familiar-loved-fa-ades-balconies/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

> [People who travel are always fugitives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-du-maurier/people-who-travel-are-always-fugitives/)

[Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-du-maurier/)

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