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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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Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.
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As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.
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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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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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I am the only real truth I know.
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We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.
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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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She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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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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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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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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