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The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.
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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After all this, what happened? What happened was that, as soon as I had the slightest chance of a place to hide in, I crept into it and hid. Well, sometimes it's a fine day isn't it? Sometimes the skies are blue. Sometimes the air is light, easy to breathe. And there is always tomorrow.
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And then the days came when I was alone.
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Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.
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As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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She’ll have no lover, for I don’t want her and she’ll see no other.
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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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Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up.
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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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There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?
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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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I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty. Only the sun was there to keep us company. We shut him out. And why not? Very soon she was as eager for what's called loving as I was - more lost and drowned afterwards.
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