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Author: Daphne du Maurier
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  1. Daphne du Maurier _ The Scapegoat

    Death was an executioner, lopping a flower before it bloomed. The sky had glories enough, but not the soil.
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  2. Daphne du Maurier _ Rebecca

    He did not notice, every day, as I did, the blind gaze of the old dog in its basket in the library, who lifted its head when it heard my footstep, the footstep of a woman, and sniffing the air drooped its head again, because I was not the one she sought.
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  3. Daphne du Maurier _ Rebecca

    Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain, no matter what tears were shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed.
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  4. Daphne du Maurier _ Rebecca

    men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire.
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  5. Daphne du Maurier _ Frenchman's Creek

    I wish I were a man, William.""Why so, my lady?""Because I too would find my ship, and go forth, a law unto myself.
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  6. Daphne du Maurier _ The House on the Strand

    What they had dreamed of, schemed for, accomplished, no longer mattered, it was all forgotten.
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  7. Daphne du Maurier _ The House on the Strand

    When I lie I like to base the lie on a foundation of fact, for it appeases not only conscience but a sense of justice.
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  8. Daphne du Maurier _ Rebecca

    I had an uneasy feeling we might be asked to spend the approaching Christmas with Beatrice. Perhaps I could have influenza.
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  9. Daphne du Maurier _ The House on the Strand

    Could time be all-dimensional-yesterday, today, tomorrow running concurrently in ceaseless repetition? Perhaps
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  10. Daphne du Maurier _ The House on the Strand

    So much for women's value in other days. Goods reared for purchase, then bought and sold in the market-place, or rather manor. Small wonder that, their duty done, they looked round for consolation, either by taking a lover or by playing an active part in the bargaining over their own daughters and sons.
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  11. Daphne du Maurier _ The House on the Strand

    Three years of marriage," he said, "and the dishwasher means more to your conjugal life than the double bed I'm throwing in for good measure. I warned you it wouldn't last. The marriage, I mean, not the bed.
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  12. Daphne du Maurier _ The House on the Strand

    To him, the drug released the complex brew within the brain that served up the savored past. To me, it proved that the past was living still, that we were all participants, all witnesses. I was Roger, I was Bodrugan, I was Cain; and in being so was more truly myself.
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