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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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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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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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When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.
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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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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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When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.
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There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
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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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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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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 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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I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.
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She’ll have no lover, for I don’t want her and she’ll see no other.
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I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
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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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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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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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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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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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