"And I saw that all my life I……" — Jean Rhys
"And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world."
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Jean Rhys
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89 Quotes by Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys has 89 quotes on this site.
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Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my…
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness...
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All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the…
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I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
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Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
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Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
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I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.
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I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under…
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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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