Anna Kavan Quotes

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Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.

Anna Kavan
I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.

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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.

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I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

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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.

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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.

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Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.

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