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Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
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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I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.
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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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I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.
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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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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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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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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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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.
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Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.
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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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It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.
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Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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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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If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.
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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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I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
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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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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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