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Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Listening
Quiet
Silence
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Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Quantity
Reality
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At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Cold
Lasts
Mountain
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I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Dragons
Mets
Telephones
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You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Afraid Of Life
Hurt
It Hurts
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Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Real
Reality
World
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I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Confusing
Curious
Feelings
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My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Confused
Ideas
Mind
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To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Secret
Thinking
Waiting
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I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Mountain
People
Wish
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I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me now that I can scarcely tell true from false: dreams like light imprisoned in bright mineral caves; hot, heavy dreams; ice-age dreams; dreams like machines in the head.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Dream
Ice
Light
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A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the deadly cold, the frozen vacuum of an ice age, life reduced to mineral crystals. [. . .] I drove at great speed, as if escaping, pretending we could escape. Although I knew there was no escape from the ice, from the ever-diminishing remnant of time that encapsuled us.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Age
Escaping
Ice
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While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild creatures affords me a certain safeguard. Where all else is dangerous, hostile and liable to inflict pain, they alone can do me no injury because, probably, they are not even aware of my existence. The birds are at once my refuge and my relaxation.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Believe
Bird
Pain
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Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the reluctant love drained painfully from me as blood drains from a deep wound. The tigers lapped my love's blood and remained enemies. The inhabitants of the day laughed at the gift I wanted to bring them, and I shut myself in my inner room to escape the betrayal of their arrogant mouths.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Love
Betrayal
Blood
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What can I do now? What am I to become? How can I live in this world I'm condemned to but can't endure? They couldn't stand it either, so they made a world of their own. Well, they have each other's company, and they are heroes, whereas I'm quite alone, and have none of the qualities essential to heroism - the spirit, the toughness, the dedication. I'm back where I was as a child, solitary, helpless, unwanted, frightened.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Children
Dedication
Hero
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The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and browbeaten those around him by his high-and-mightiness and his atrocious temper. As a boy he terrorized his entire family by his tantrums, when, if thwarted, he would throw himself on the floor and yell till he went blue in the face. It has been much the same ever since. Everyone's terrified of his rages. He has only to start grinding his teeth, and people fall flat before him.
Anna Kavan / Novelist
Men
Boys
Fall
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