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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.
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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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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There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.
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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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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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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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As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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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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I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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