Jean Rhys Quotes - Page 2

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• The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.

  Jean Rhys

  Beautiful, Real, Hunger

  'The Left Bank' (1927) 'Illusion'

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• I have arranged my little life.

  Jean Rhys

  Littles

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• You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

  Jean Rhys

  Thinking, Mirrors, Imagine

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• Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.

  Jean Rhys

  Lasts, Knows

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

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• I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

  Jean Rhys

  Rooms, Ghost, Empty

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• One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

  Jean Rhys

  Shadow, Important, Substance

  Jean Rhys (1981). “Quartet”

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

  Jean Rhys

  Earth, Sometimes, Breathe

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• Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

  Jean Rhys

  Home, Today, Armor

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• I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

  Jean Rhys

  Lioness, Circus

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• No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.

  Jean Rhys

  Past, Practice, Sentimental

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• 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.

  Jean Rhys

  Writing, People, Has Beens

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

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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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• Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.

  Jean Rhys

  Stars, Dark, Moon

  Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

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• ...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

  Jean Rhys

  Rags, Illusion, Havens

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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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• He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

  Jean Rhys

  Wind, People, Unhappy

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• I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.

  Jean Rhys

  Knows

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• Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.

  Jean Rhys

  Thinking, Ankles, Weight

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• And then the days came when I was alone.

  Jean Rhys

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• A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened and that happened... And then the days came and I was alone.

  Jean Rhys

  Beautiful, Nice, Swings

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• I'm no use to anybody,' I say. 'I'm a cérébrale, can't you see that?' Thinking how funny a book would be, called 'Just a Cérébrale or You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming'. Only, of course, to be accepted as authentic, to carry any conviction, it would have to be written by a man. What a pity, what a pity!

  Jean Rhys

  Dream, Book, Men

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• She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

  Jean Rhys

  Would Be, Longing, Thirsty

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

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• Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.

  Jean Rhys

  Sometimes, Life Is, Melancholy

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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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