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

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Source : Voyage in the Dark (1934) ch. 4, pt. 1

Jean Rhys

#Friday Quotes #Sunday Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.”
“The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from ***** to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.”
“Iâ€™m a guy that creates my own destiny in this world. Until Iâ€™m off the planet, thereâ€™s always a second chance.”
“The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.”
“When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.”
“I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.”
“Some things are worth the cost of their consequences.”
“Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.”

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