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I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.
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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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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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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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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As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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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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