Jean Rhys Quotes

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• I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.

  Jean Rhys

  Life, Being Yourself, I Dont Care

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• It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.

  Jean Rhys

  Easy, Persons, Seems

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• Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.

  Jean Rhys

  Dream, Lying, Magic

  Jean Rhys (2001). “Wide Sargasso Sea”, Gardners Books

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• All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

  Jean Rhys

  Writing, Lakes, Rivers

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• Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

  Jean Rhys

  Beautiful, Successful, Wish

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• My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.

  Jean Rhys

  Nice, Simple, Glasses

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• I am the only real truth I know.

  Jean Rhys

  Truth, Real, Acceptance

  Jean Rhys, Isak Dinesen (1978). “Women Fiction 2”

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• Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.

  Jean Rhys

  Heart, Eye, My Heart

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• A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

  Jean Rhys

  Rooms

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• You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

  Jean Rhys

  Beautiful, Fall, Long

  Jean Rhys (2001). “Wide Sargasso Sea”, Gardners Books

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• There is always the other side, always.

  Jean Rhys

  Sides

  Jean Rhys (2001). “Wide Sargasso Sea”, Gardners Books

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• I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.

  Jean Rhys

  Hurt, Children, Healing

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• When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul.

  Jean Rhys

  Being Yourself, Children, Soul

  Jean Rhys (1985). “Tales of the wide Caribbean”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

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• Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.

  Jean Rhys

  Earth, Sometimes, Breathe

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• Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

  Jean Rhys

  Age, Aging, Jerk

  Jean Rhys (1975). “My Day: Three Pieces”

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• If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.

  Jean Rhys

  People, Faces, Spit

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• If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.

  Jean Rhys

  Heaven, Magic, Hell

  Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

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• I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.

  Jean Rhys

  Fire, Wings, Feelings

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• We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

  Jean Rhys

  Life, Fun, Dark

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• The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

  Jean Rhys

  Friday, Sunday, Weekend

  Voyage in the Dark (1934) ch. 4, pt. 1

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• Have all beautiful things sad destinies?

  Jean Rhys

  Beautiful, Destiny, Beautiful Things

  Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

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• I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.

  Jean Rhys

  Dresses, Doe, Looks

  Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

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• London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.

  Jean Rhys

  Dream, Dark, London

  Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

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• Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary.

  Jean Rhys

  Sacrifice, Laughing, May

  'Good Morning, Midnight' (1939) pt. 1

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• There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

  Jean Rhys

  Real, Two, People

  Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

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