Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
Daphne du MaurierMen and women who have never lived make finer captives on the printed page, or if they have lived, and are historical, then the very knowledge that they belong to a past we have not known ourselves induces fancy.
Daphne du MaurierTags: writing
Then all at once she turned to me, her face pale, her eyes strangely alight. She said, “Is it possible to love someone so much, that it gives one a pleasure to hurt them? To hurt them by jealousy, I mean, and to hurt myself at the same time. Pleasure and pain, an equal mingling of pleasure and pain, just as an experiment, a rare sensation?
Daphne du MaurierI might say that we have paid for freedom. But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind of course we have on moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity.
Daphne du MaurierTags: life-lessons
What degradation lay in being young.
Daphne du MaurierWhen she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.
Daphne du MaurierTags: the-appel-tree
People who travel are always fugitives.
Daphne du MaurierYou understand now... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.
Daphne du MaurierI wonder ... when it was that the world first went amiss, and men forgot how to live and to love and to be happy.
Daphne du MaurierThe moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.
Daphne du MaurierTags: fear social-anxiety inferiority shyness
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