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Inspirational Quotes by Jean Rhys
- I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness...
- Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
- If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.
- As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
- There is always the other side, always.
- When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.
- I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
- They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
- Quite like old times,' the room says.
- I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.
- A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.
- ...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.
- She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.
- It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.
- ...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.
- Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)
- Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.
- She’ll have no lover, for I don’t want her and she’ll see no other.
- Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.
- I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could…
- Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be…
- I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.
- Life if curious when reduced to its essentials
- Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
- There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento