Jean Rhys Quotes
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...

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

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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.

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I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged . . . Read more

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

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And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

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