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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.
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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As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.
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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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I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.
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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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Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
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I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
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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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