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#1. Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday.

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#2. The air was full of their scent, sweet and heady, and it seemed to me as though their very essence had mingled with the running waters of the stream, and become one with the falling rain and the dank rich moss beneath our fee

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#3. The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.

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#4. From the very first, I knew that it would be so ... I smiled to myself, and said, That
and none other.

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#5. Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand.

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#6. I had never looked more youthful, I had never felt so old.

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#7. What degradation lay in being young.

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#8. He could see her planting violets on his grave, a solitary figure in a grey cloak. What a ghastly tragedy. A lump came to his throat. He became quite emotional thinking of his own death. He would have to write a poem about this.
from a Difference in Temperament

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#9. You're all wounded and hurt and torn inside.

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#10. There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.

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#11. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive
coming perhaps once in a life-time
and approaching ectasy.

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#12. the rank and melancholy smell of charred wet wood and sodden leaves coming towards me on a wisp of air.

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#13. He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so lost in the labyrinth of his own unquiet thoughts that I did not exist.

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#14. [Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.

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#15. There are some women, Philip, good women very possibly, who through no fault of their own impel disaster. Whatever they touch, somehow turns to tragedy.

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#16. I scanned the criticisms of recent books to see if there were any that resembled mine. I resented them all; it seemed to me too many people wrote in England, too many people had ideas.

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#17. No person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places.

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#18. You know,' she said, 'it's a good thing, now and again, to take stock of oneself in life. To see where one has gone wrong. I

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#19. I glanced out of the window, and it was like turning the page of a photograph album. Those roof-tops and that sea were mine no more. They belonged to yesterday, to the past.

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#20. Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

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#21. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

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#22. Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.

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#23. Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.

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#24. He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him ... This was no choice made with the mind.

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#25. The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

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#26. This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.

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#27. One of my favorite first sentences of a
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again.

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#28. He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now.

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#29. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

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#30. It was disturbing, like an enchanted place. I had not thought it could be as beautiful as this

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#31. Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

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#32. And perhaps one day, in after years, someone would wander there and listen to the silence, as she had done, and catch the whisper of the dreams that she had dreamt there, in midsummer, under the hot sun and the white sky.

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#33. I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.

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#34. I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people.

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#35. I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

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#36. And through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace.

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#37. She would have stood by Giles's side, and shaken hands with people, a smile on her face. I could not do that. I had not the pride, I had not the guts. I was badly bred.

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#38. reader is back in the

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#39. I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.

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#40. It was unlike anything I had ever known. I had no feeling, no pain.

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#41. He was my secret property. Preserved for me alone...

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#42. Nat thought to himself that "they" were no doubt considering the problem at that very moment, but whatever "they" decided to do in London and the big cities would not help the people here, three hundred miles away. Each householder must look after his own.

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#43. Who can ever affirm, or deny that the houses which have sheltered us as children, or as adults, and our predecessors too, do not have embedded in their walls, one with the dust and cobwebs, one with the overlay of fresh wallpaper and paint, the imprint of what-has-been, the suffering, the joy?

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#44. She had contemplated life so long it had become indifferent to her.

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#45. You see,' she said, snapping the top, and walking down the stairs, 'you are so very different from Rebecca

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#46. We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.

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#47. Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

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#48. There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair

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#49. I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.

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#50. When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

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#51. The inevitable lorgnette, the enemy to other people's privacy.

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#52. But fate and circumstance had made me no more than a shadow in his life, a phantom of what might have been

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#53. Mullioned windows reflecting the green lawns and the terrace.

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#54. Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?

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#55. Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me."
"Do you mean you want a secretary or something?"
"No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

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#56. Nature had come into her own again and, little by little, in her stealthy, insidious way had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers.

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#57. How pleasant,' Dona said, peeling her fruit; 'the rest of us can only run away from time to time, and however much we pretend to be free, we know it is only for a little while - our hands and our feet are tied.

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

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#59. I wondered how it could be that two people who had loved could yet have such a misconception of each other and, with a common grief, grow far apart. There must be something in the nature of love between a man and a woman that drove them to torment and suspicion.

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#60. There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed.

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#61. Death should be different. It should be like bidding farewell to someone at a station before a long journey, but without the strain.

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#62. 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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#63. It's so much easier to think out vaguely in my head than to set it down in words.

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#64. People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.

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#65. All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

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#66. I could fight the living but I could not fight the dead

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#67. Maxim's voice, clear and strong, Will someone take my wife outside?She is going to faint.

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#68. I had so identified myself with Rebecca that my own dull self did not exist, had never come to Manderley. I had gone back in thought and in person to the days that were gone.

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#69. And he went on eating his marmalade as though everything were natural.

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#70. - because just by hating it's possible to be purified from love, just with the sword, with the fire..

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#71. But I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so
modesty
are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

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#72. You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.

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#73. Happy in his silence yet eager for his words.

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#74. She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment

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#75. We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday's films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.

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#76. We change from the awakening questing creatures we were once, afire with wonder, and expectancy, and doubt, to persons of opinion and authority, our habits formed, our characters moulded in a pattern

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#77. There's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.

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#78. He was young and ardent in a hundred happy ways.

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#79. I was aware of a sense of freedom, as though I had no responsibilities at all.

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#80. Only a lover of animals will understand the sudden feeling of loss, of emptiness, and the intuitive bond which exists between man and dog, has always existed from the beginning and will, please God, continue to the end.

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#81. I dragged myself to my feet, and with my hellhound in tow started off once more through the fastness of the wood, feeling, as the poet did before me, that my companion would be with me through the nights and through the days and down the arches of the years, and I should never be rid of him.

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#82. I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

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#83. There's a home for you here at North Hill, you know that, and my wife joins me in begging you to stay. Plenty to do, you know, plenty to do. There are flowers to be cut for the house, and letters to write, and the children to scold.

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#84. I don't mind. I like being alone.

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#85. I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.

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#86. The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.

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#87. But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.

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#88. Do you know so little about children, Monsieur Jean,' she asked, 'that you imagine, because they don't cry, therefore they feel nothing? If so, you're much mistaken.

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#89. Oh, God, I though, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall bow to the audience, and go off to our dressing-rooms.

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#90. It's funny,' I noted in the diary, 'how often I seem to build a story around one sentence, nearly always the last one, too. The themes are a bit depressing but I just can't get rid of that.

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#91. A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

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#92. There was Manderley, our Manderley, secretive and silent as it had always been, the gray stone shining in the moonlight of my dream ...

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#93. Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?

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#94. My old hidden dreams that I thought buried for all time lie bare and naked to the day, just as the shells and the stones do on the sands

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#95. No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.

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#96. Richard turned and saw me. And as he looked at me it was as if my whole heart moved over in my body and was mine no longer

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#97. Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.

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#98. If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning.

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#99. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

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#100. The visitors sat down, languid, and content to rest. Seecombe brought cake and wine.

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