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The House on the Strand
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"The House on the Strand" Quotes

A man experimenting with a mind-altering drug becomes obsessed with visions of the past, blurring the line between reality and history in a haunting Cornish landscape.

Quotes

Time is not rigid and unyielding. It is fluid, ever changing, like the sea.

Daphne du Maurier

timechange

There is no such thing as an ending, just a new beginning.

Daphne du Maurier

new beginnings

To love is to possess, and to possess is to lose.

Daphne du Maurier

loveloss

I am content, for I know that I am loved.

Daphne du Maurier

lovecontentment

The only way forward is through the past.

Daphne du Maurier

moving forward

The mind is a powerful force. It can enslave us or empower us. It can plunge us into the depths of misery or take us to the heights of ecstasy.

Daphne du Maurier

mindpower

The future, like the past, was indefinite and existent only in the mind.

Daphne du Maurier

futureexistence

The dead are with us all the time.

Daphne du Maurier

deathpresence

We are all time-travellers, each with our own memories to visit.

Daphne du Maurier

timememory

Fear is the enemy. Courage is the weapon.

Daphne du Maurier

fearcourage