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I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.
Jean Rhys
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Jean Rhys
Age: 88 †
Born: 1890
Born: August 24
Died: 1979
Died: May 14
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Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams
Ella Rees Williams
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It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe.
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The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.
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I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.
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And then the days came when I was alone.
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that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.
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...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.
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Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed. But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.
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And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?
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I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.
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What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.
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Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.
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As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.
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I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.
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It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?
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