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I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
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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Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed. But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.
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It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?
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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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If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.
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There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.
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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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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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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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Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.
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When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.
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I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.
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And then the days came when I was alone.
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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 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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Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.
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The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.
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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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She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.
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It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.
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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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