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I am the only real truth I know.

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
Acceptance
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Truth
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And then the days came when I was alone.
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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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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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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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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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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Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.
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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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She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.
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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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