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

  Jean Rhys

  Easy, Persons, Seems

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

  Jean Rhys

  Sides

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

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

  Jean Rhys

  Earth, Sometimes, Breathe

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

  Jean Rhys

  Sometimes, Life Is, Melancholy

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• I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

  Jean Rhys

  Lioness, Circus

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