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.
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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