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...there is peace in despair in exactly the same way as there is despair in peace ("Outside the Machine")

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Jean Rhys, CBE (/riːs/ REESS; born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a novelist who was born on Dominica and from the age of 16 on resided mainly in England.

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