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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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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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Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be different, different. It must be different.
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And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?
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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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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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It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.
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I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
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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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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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Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.
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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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Quite like old times,' the room says.
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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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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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...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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There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.
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Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up.
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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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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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