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No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.
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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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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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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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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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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I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.
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And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?
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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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Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.
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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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When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.
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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 am the only real truth I know.
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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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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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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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Quite like old times,' the room says.
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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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