"She spent the foggy day in endless, aimless walking, for it seemed to her that if she moved quickly enough she would escape the fear that hunted her. It was a vague and shadowy fear of something cruel and stupid that had caught her and would never let her go. She had always known that it was there - hidden under the more of less pleasant surface of things. Always. Ever since she was a child. You could argue about hunger or cold or loneliness, but with that fear you couldn't argue. It went too deep. You were too mysteriously sure of its terror. You could only walk very fast and try to leave it behind you."
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Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys, CBE (/riΛs/ REESS; born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 β 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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