Anna Kavan Quotes

• Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

  Anna Kavan

  Silence, Listening, Quiet

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

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  Reality, Quantity

  Anna Kavan (1970). “Ice”

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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.

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  Dream, Light, Ice

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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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  Real, Reality, World

  Anna Kavan (1947). “The House of Sleep”

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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.

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  People, Wish, Mountain

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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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  Escaping, Ice, Age

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• Mientras observo a los pájaros creo que soy relativamente inmune a los asaltos de la vida. La propia indiferencia hacia la humanidad de estas criaturas salvajes me proporciona una cierta protección. Donde todo lo demás es peligroso, hostil y susceptible de infligir dolor, ellas son las únicas que no pueden hacerme daño porque, probablemente, ni siquiera son conscientes de mi existencia. Los pájaros son a la vez mi refugio y mi descanso.

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  Pain, Believe, Bird

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• At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

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  Mountain, Lasts, Cold

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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.

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  Hurt, It Hurts, Afraid Of Life

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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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  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.

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  Children, Hero, Dedication

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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.

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  Thinking, Waiting, Secret

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

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  Feelings, Confusing, Curious

  Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”

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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.

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  Otoño, Niños, Hombres

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• Mis ideas eran confusas. De una manera peculiar, la irrealidad del mundo exterior parecía ser una extensión de mi propio estado mental perturbado.

  Anna Kavan

  Confused, Ideas, Mind

  Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”

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

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  Dragons, Telephones, Mets

  Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”

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