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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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When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul.
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.
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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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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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He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.
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Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.
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When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.
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Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.
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Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be different, different. It must be different.
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If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.
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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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We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.
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Quite like old times,' the room says.
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.
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She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
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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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Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
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