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Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
Daphne du Maurier
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Daphne du Maurier
Age: 81 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 13
Died: 1989
Died: April 19
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Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.
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She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.
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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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