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I'll Never Be Young Once again past Daphne du Maurier
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"The aroma of coffee, white dust, tobacco and burnt bread, flowers with a fragrance of wine, and the ruby-red fruit, soft and overripe. A daughter looking over her bare shoulder, with a wink of a smile, gold ear-rings showing from thick black hair brushed abroad from her confront, long arms, a cigarette between her lips. Night like a nifty nighttime blanket, voices murmuring at a street corner, the air warm with tired flowers, and a hum from the sea."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Immature Again

"They were all gone, these other selves, and they would never come dorsum again.They had vanished, like little thoughts and picayune dreams, poor has-beens that had lived in me and I in them, now thrown abroad into the dust, non even lingering as shadows to keep me company."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Immature Over again

"Y'all talked to me of beingness young," I said to Jake, "yous talked tonight on the bridge of losing something I would never sympathise. Don't you see what all that has meant to me? I was a boy without the life of a boy. Existence young ways bondage to me, information technology means a gaping sepulcher of a house smelling of grit and decay, it means people I have never loved living apart from me in a world of their own where there's no time, it means the stifling personality of my father crushing the spirit of his son, information technology"
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Again

"When anyone talked about beauty in that style I knew they were doing it for effect. Possibly she wanted me to think she was intelligent. She had only to open her rima oris to show me she was not."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Again

"I scanned the criticisms of contempo books to see if there were whatever that resembled mine. I resented them all; information technology seemed to me too many people wrote in England, besides many people had ideas."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Over again

"For me, the nowadays desperation of departure, the silent terror of leaving a place known to me if hated, the well-nearly impossible task of acquisition the fear that possessed me. Not the fear of that hasty look round, the sudden plunge headlong and the lightheaded shock of hard, cold water, the river itself entering my lungs, rising in my throat, tossing me upon my back with my artillery outflung—I could hear the sob strangled in my chest and the blood leave me—but fear of the sure cognition that there was no returning, no possible means of escape, and no other thing beyond."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Immature Again

"This was my picture, and I wanted to become part of it too, to sleep there with the others on the shore, just they would not permit me. I had to go abroad and live my life. I had no business to remain in that location lost in a dream. I had to break my mind away from information technology, I had to cover information technology, sadly, reverently, hide information technology in the shadowed untouched places of my memory. I would never forget. I would never allow my picture to become dusty and worn. After all that had been and all that was to come up, I should notwithstanding run across it, the rugged cliffs, the little lighthouse continuing beyond the razor border of the Pointe du Raz, the broken Romanie desolate, solitary, and lastly, beautiful and forlorn, the sleeping figures in the Baie des Trépassés."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Exist Young Again

"The poet'southward insight into the unchanging spirit of humanity.…" "Insight" was a good word. My father was dandy on insight. I had lived with him for 20 years and I ought to know. "His intimate understanding of the deep unspoken desires that prevarication sleeping in the breast of every 1 of us.…" So the papers said. I thought of him turning his optics upon me in the dining room at home: "Yes, Richard must bike into Lessington." Intimate understanding, and I pedaling downwards the hard principal road. What a lot of insight that turned out to exist!"
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Exist Young Again

"I remembered as a child standing in a field where a stream crossed my path, and a yellow iris grew side by side a background of dark-green rushes. The stream sang equally it tumbled over the flat stones. And as a child I thought how foreign it was that such things should continue afterward I had left them, as though when turning a corner with the stream hidden from view, a mist must autumn nearly them, shrouding them advisedly, until I should pass again. It was like this at present, with the traffic and the moving people. Impossible that they should alive while I was no more a part of existence."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Again

"Information technology seemed foreign that things could even so exist done to me after I was dead, that my body would perhaps exist found and handled by people I should never know, that really a little life would go on near me which I should never feel."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Again

"It was sinister, overpowering; it was like a troubled dream conjured by the evil thoughts of a past day. There was no suggestion of ultimate hope, and no possibility of escape. It was a terrible place. I sat upward on the deck with my chin in my hands, looking in front end of me thinking of nothing, my middle heavy, longing for some nameless thing that I could not explicate fifty-fifty to myself. I did not want to feel depressed like this. I wanted to laugh, and not to care about a thought, and to be with people who did not affair, and to accept some fun taking that girl aground. I did not desire to be in a lost mood, wretched and distressed. I wished Gudvangen was different, and the mountains wider apart, and the lord's day shining in a clear sky, and the blue water warm and shallow."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Immature Again

"Jake, I don't want always to be old. I want e'er to go upwards in the morning and feel there's something thousand lying just ahead of me, round the corner, over a hill. I want always to feel that if I stand still, only for a infinitesimal, I'm missing something a few yards away. I don't want e'er to observe myself thinking: "What's the use of going across that street?" That'southward the end of everything, Jake, when looking for things doesn't count any more. When y'all sit down back happily in a chair, content with what you've got - that'south beingness sometime.' 'There'south no need to get that way. It's your ain thoughts that go on you lot young, Dick. And age hasn't anything to do with information technology. It'due south a question of your state of mind."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Again

"Information technology was hopeless the way time did not stand up still, not for a fraction of a second, that there was never an occasion when I could grasp the whole intensity of pleasure, examining it, breathing information technology, holding it softly with my hands and saying: 'Now I am living, now . . . now . . .' It was nothing but a serial of flashes quivering earlier my eyes, dancing themselves abroad"
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Again

"I wondered why I had always despised these things, why they had once seemed lamentable and absurd. I wondered why the placidity of a home seemed necessary to me at present, and why I no longer yearned for the turmoil of a transport upon the sea."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Exist Young Again

"Once in that location had been a path across the mountains, and restlessness, and an urge to fight, and a dream of many women, and now in that location was a home that was my home, and peace, and relaxation, and no dreams only the reality of one woman. I did not know if information technology was I who had changed, or the world that had changed most me, but so it was, and I could non call dorsum the dreams that had gone from me."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Again

"The restlessness has gone, the indecision and likewise the great heights of exultation, the strange depths of pathos. I am secure now, and certain of myself. There is peace and contentment."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Over again

"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious ability of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Again

"So I was glad of the presence of Jake nearly to me at all times, for a horror would come upon me because of the vast confinement of space and the lone splendor of the regions where we were drifting; even the white stars seemed cold and terribly remote, and we, poor homo beings on our little send, were wretched and pathetic in our attempts to equal their wisdom, nor had we any correct to venture upon the imperturbability of these waters."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Exist Young Again

"I thought at get-go somebody was dead, but subsequently a while I saw it was just England."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Again

"I listened—much equally you're listening now, Dick, but it wasn't from curiosity, it was something more than. I hated the thought of this globe that must be lived in—the sordid pitiful lives of men and women, who can't become beyond their own bodies. I could meet this girl, living as she did without the excuse of poverty—she wasn't whatsoever prostitute having to go on herself, only spoiling her beauty, her health, and her own precious individuality, which is greater than anything in life, Dick, because some human had taught her to exist self-indulgent. In that location wasn't annihilation more than in it than that."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Once again

"I would forget my own beating heart, my ain trembling body, my own sense of inexpiable degradation. I got up and started to throw off my things. Then the door opened and Jake came into the cabin. I did non want to look at him at first. I turned my back and fumbled with the tap of the basin. He did not say anything either. I whistled a tune nether my jiff. I wished he had been boozer, or laughing, or blasphemous, or in some style dragging himself down to my level."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Young Again

"The spaniel came up to me, sniffing at my legs, and I bent downwards and stroked his ears. "Well, Micky," I said, "you surely call up me? Poor old Micky, good old Micky." "Micky has got very fat," said my mother. "Yep," I said. "Micky is addicted of his food," said Grey. There was another pause and I went on stroking the spaniel'south ears."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Exist Young Again

"Greyness put me up for his club. I dine there most evenings. Fellows there have been extraordinarily kind. I go out often, I know many people. Sometimes I recall what Jake said near me beingness successful i mean solar day. I suppose it will come up truthful. It's all very different, of course, from what I dreamed. But then dreams are apart from the business concern of living; they are things we shed from us gently as we grow older."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Immature Once more

"Every word he wrote would be potent with that sweet purity and simplicity that was his gift solitary, placing him higher than any living poet, secure on his pedestal autonomously from the world, like a great silent god higher up the little dwarfs of men tossed here and thither in the stream of life. From the crystal clearness of his brain the images became words, and the words became magic, and the whole was transcendent of beauty, one thread touching another, alike in their perfection and their certitude of immortality. Thus it seemed to me he was not a living figure of flesh and claret, but a monument to the national pride of his country, his England, and now and then he would bow gravely from his pedestal and besprinkle to the people a small quantity of his thought, which they would chow for on their poor crude ground, then clasp to their hungry hearts as treasure."
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Exist Immature Again

"There'due south no need to become that way. It'south your own thoughts that keep you young, Dick. And age hasn't anything to do with it. It's a question of your state of mind." "I don't care about all that. Oh! Jake—if I could live tremendously, so die." "What do you phone call 'tremendously'?" "I don't know—but there are a whole lot of things I want to know and to feel. They won't e'er happen though. Fate'll be against me." "Don't talk like a fool. There isn't such a thing equally Fate. Everything depends on yourself," he said. "Everything?" "Yes." "I wish I could"
― Daphne du Maurier, I'll Never Be Immature Once again

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