Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

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Mots clés goodbye end finality

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Men 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.

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Mots clés writing

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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?

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I 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 Maurier

Mots clés life-lessons

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What degradation lay in being young.

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When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.

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Mots clés the-appel-tree

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People who travel are always fugitives.

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

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I wonder ... when it was that the world first went amiss, and men forgot how to live and to love and to be happy.

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The 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 Maurier

Mots clés fear social-anxiety inferiority shyness

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