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Only Quotes by Jean Rhys
- I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.
- I'm no use to anybody,' I say. 'I'm a cérébrale, can't you see that?' Thinking how funny a book would be, called 'Just a Cérébrale…
- Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word…
- Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one…
- I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when…
- For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take…
- Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
- Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.
- I am the only real truth I know.
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