Jean Rhys Quotes
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Jean Rhys Famous Quotes & Sayings
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What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.
Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.
Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.
When you insult or injure the unfortunate or the unhappy, you insult Christ Himself and He will not forget, for they are His chosen ones.
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.
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 ...
He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.
Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand ... How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss ...
I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.
Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up ...
That's all you're waiting for, isn't it? But no, you must have the slow death, the bloodless killing that leaves no stain on your conscience ...
I try, but they always see through me. The passages will never lead anywhere, the doors will always be shut.
Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.
It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?
Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.
The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.
May you tear each other to bits, you damned hyenas, and the quicker the better. Let it be destroyed. Let it happen. Let it end, this cold insanity.
She was a shadow, kept alive by a flame of hatred for somebody who had long ago forgotten all about her.
I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).
I got quite used to changing that cheque, because you can get used to anything. You think: I'll never do that; and you find yourself doing it.
Before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.
Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other.
Get up, girl, and dress yourself. Woman must have spunks to live in this wicked world."
Christophine to Antoinette
Christophine to Antoinette
I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.
Only seven or eight, and yet she knew so exactly how to be cruel and who it was safe to be cruel to. One must admire Nature..
Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.'
(That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)
(That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)
The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?
Saved, rescued, fished-up, half-drowned, out of the deep, dark river, dry clothes, hair shampooed and set. Nobody would know I had ever been in it.