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May you tear each other to bits, you damned hyenas, and the quicker the better. Let it be destroyed. Let it happen. Let it end, this cold insanity.
May you tear each other to bits, you damned hyenas, and the quicker the better. Let it be destroyed. Let it happen. Let it end, this cold insanity.
Approximate author period: c. 1934 AD · modern
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- Jean Rhys
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- Approximate author period: c. 1934 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Jean Rhys, based on documented lifetime 1890 to 1979. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230598 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230598 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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