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"...Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else.

— Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

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It's a lovely feeling to know you can do exactly as you like.

Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow.

Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

I woke the next morning knowing that nothing would be the same. It would change and go on changing.

Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.

Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

I suppose the fantastic is what you imagine, but as soon as you do a fantastic thing, it's no longer fantastic, it becomes real.

Interview with The Paris Review (1979)

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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

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