"here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate."

-- Daphne du Maurier

#Determination Quotes #Wind Quotes #Two Quotes

“Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.”
“While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.”
“If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.”

Source : Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell, 290 U.S. 398, (483), 1934.
“Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.”
“A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.”

Source : Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.9, Hachette UK
“I try to tell people that just because you're buff and cut doesn't mean you're healthy.”
“You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair... People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.”
“When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired.”

Source : "Good Spirits". Book by Gene Logsdon, 1999.

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