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One Quotes by Daphne du Maurier
- When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
- We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror…
- If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then,…
- If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.
- 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…
- We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of…
- He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst.…
- He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was…
- Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs…
- 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 easily…
- ... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to…
- Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession any more.…
- I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone he…
- I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.
- Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.
- 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…
- If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle