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If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.
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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I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty. Only the sun was there to keep us company. We shut him out. And why not? Very soon she was as eager for what's called loving as I was - more lost and drowned afterwards.
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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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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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I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.
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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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It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?
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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
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There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.
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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 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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The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.
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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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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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You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.
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He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.
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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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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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