I...think about being hungry, being cold, being hurt, being ridiculed, as if it were in another life than this.This damned room - it's saturated with the past. . . .It's all the rooms I've ever slept in, all the streets I've ever walked in. Now the whole thing moves in an ordered, undulating procession past my eyes. Rooms, streets, streets, rooms. . . .
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Jean Rhys was a 19th-century British novelist. Jean Rhys was a novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her education. Read more on Wikipedia →