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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.
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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Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.
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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 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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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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Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
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It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?
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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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You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.
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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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She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.
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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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Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.
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I am the only real truth I know.
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All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.
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But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.
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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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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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