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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Daphne du Maurier _ The House on the Strand

    The world of today asleep, and my world not awakened, or not as yet, until the drug possessed me.
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