Jean Rhys Quotes

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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…
• The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
• Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
• I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness...
• All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.
• I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
• Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
• Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
• I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.
• I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting…
• I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.
• If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.
• The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.
• As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
• There is always the other side, always.
• Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.
• 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…
• When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.
• I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.
• I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.

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