Mind Quotes by Daphne du Maurier

10 Mind quotes by Daphne du Maurier

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Daphne du Maurier’s take on the mind shines through in this short set of ten lines. Expect a blend of literary flair and introspection that hints at the depth of her larger work.

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“I don't mind. I like being alone.”

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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…

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

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He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and…

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Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Happiness…

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“Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is…

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But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our…

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He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that…

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He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger…

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

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“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…

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“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…

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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

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“We all of us have our particular devil who ruses us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”

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“Happy in his silence yet eager for his words.”

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“There have been men in arid deserts where the sun has so disfigured them that they have become things of horror – parched and…

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“Packing up. The nagging worry of departure. When shutting drawers and flinging wide an hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa,…

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“And perhaps one day, in after years, someone would wander there and listen to the silence, as she had done, and catch the whisper…

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