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“For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.”
― Daphne duMaurier, Rebecca

“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.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“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.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire.”
― Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca

“What degradation lay in being young.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.”
― vladimir nabokov, Lolita

“To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair