"I must write. If I stop writing my……" — Jean Rhys
"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 be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death."
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89 Quotes by Jean Rhys
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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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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to…
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all…
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to…
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Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him…
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I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or…
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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon…
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'…
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than…
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