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One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.
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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As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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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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All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.
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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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She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.
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