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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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It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe.
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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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Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.
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Quite like old times,' the room says.
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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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The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.
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And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?
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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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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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I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.
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Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.
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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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But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.
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She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
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And then the days came when I was alone.
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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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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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
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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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