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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
Novelist
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Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams
Ella Rees Williams
Rest
Lying
True
Dream
Magic

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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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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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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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