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Jean Rhys Quotes: I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.
         

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.


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Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.



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.

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.



A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.



The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.



I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.



I am the only real truth I know.

I am the only real truth I know.



Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.



Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.



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.

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.



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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.





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Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.




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