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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is always the other side, always.

  Jean Rhys

  Sides

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Have all beautiful things sad destinies?

  Jean Rhys

  Beautiful, Destiny, Beautiful Things

  Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

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

  Jean Rhys

  Easy, Persons, Seems

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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 is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.

  Jean Rhys

  Running, Morning, Adventure

  Jean Rhys (2017). “The Collected Short Stories”, p.120, Penguin UK

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

  Jean Rhys

  Earth, Sometimes, Breathe

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• I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

  Jean Rhys

  Lioness, Circus

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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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• All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

  Jean Rhys

  Book, Writing, Matter

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• ...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.

  Jean Rhys

  Unhappiness, Strangeness

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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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• I have arranged my little life.

  Jean Rhys

  Littles

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• 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 sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.

  Jean Rhys

  Giving, Unhappy, Firsts

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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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