Firsts Quote by Daphne du Maurier

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

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“You understand now... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.”

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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 wrote to, visited, dined with, slept with, I could fight her. We would stand on common ground. I should not be afraid. Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered. One day the woman…

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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 easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. Today, wrapped in the complacent armor of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one lightly and are soon forgotten,…

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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, I am aware of sadness, of a sense of loss. Here, I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has been ours, however brief the time. Though two nights only have been spent beneath…

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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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