"There are always two deaths, the real one……" — Jean Rhys
"There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about."
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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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More Always Two Quotes
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
— Ansel Adams
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Microsoft is always two years away from failure.
— Bill Gates
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We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides…
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There are always two or three or four sides to every story.
— Denise Richards
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or…
— Charles Baudelaire
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In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance - because there's…
— Barack Obama
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Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
— Siri Hustvedt
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You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the…
— Bernie Siegel
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In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.
— Hannah
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Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.
— Robert A. Johnson
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When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared;…
— Paul Gallico
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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