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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.
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 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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Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.
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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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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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Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.
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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 sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.
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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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I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.
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