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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.

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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Life
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Ridiculous

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As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.
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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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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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I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. ... I didn't think it would be like this
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.
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And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?
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