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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
Writer
Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams
Ella Rees Williams
Truth
Real
Acceptance
Awareness

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that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.
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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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She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.
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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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Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
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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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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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I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.
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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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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.
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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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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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...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.
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And then the days came when I was alone.
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There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
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It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.
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It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?
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