"We know one another. This is the present.……" — Daphne du Maurier
"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 shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass."
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Daphne du Maurier
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89 Quotes by Daphne du Maurier
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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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