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Jean Rhys, CBE (/riːs/; born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a mid-20th-century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica, though she was mainly resident in England from the age of 16. She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

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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.

Abject, Death, Earned, Has Beens, People, Writing

I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.

Arranged, Dinner, Five, Littles, Night, Place

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Book, Heaven, Quantities, Solitude, Sorts

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

Ankles, Heavy, Think, Thinking, Weight

And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world.

Everybody, Fear, Life, Long, Whole, World

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

Rising, Rumble, Sea, Sound

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

Unhappiness, Strangeness, Morbidly, Attracted

I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.

Feeling, Feelings, Fire, Wings

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.

Being Yourself, Belong, Care, I Dont Care, Life, Part

I have arranged my little life.

Arranged, Life, Littles

Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary.

Heartily, Laughing, May, Necessary, Sacrifice, Sacrifices

It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe.

Darkness, Greasy, Like You, Round, Shut, Wall

I am the only real truth I know.

Acceptance, Know, Real, Truth

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

Life, Life Is, Melancholy, Moment, Sometimes, Tender

Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be different, different. It must be different.

Different, Differently, Kiss, Kiss Me, Kissing, Thought

very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.

Change, Course, Different, People, Seventeen

I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.

Against, Doe, Dresses, Looks, Make, Unchaste

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

Adventure, Fresh, Morning, Running

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

Found, Rain, Rivers, Secret, Sunset, Sunsets

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

Betrayal, Doe, Judas, Know, Traitor, Traitors

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