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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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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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There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
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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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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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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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...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.
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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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When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.
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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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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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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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Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
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Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.
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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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The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.
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I am the only real truth I know.
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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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I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.
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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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It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.
Jean Rhys