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.
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 o… - Anna Kavan
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 o…
- Anna Kavan
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 hi… - Anna Kavan
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 hi…
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… - Anna Kavan
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…
At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached. - Anna Kavan
At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.
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 impri… - Anna Kavan
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 impri…
I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing. - Anna Kavan
I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.
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 m… - Anna Kavan
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 m…
Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me. - Anna Kavan
Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.
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 p… - Anna Kavan
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 p…
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