“It was always the same now, the ghost always coming between her and her life in the world, so much more important,… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“An intolerable pain pierced him. He was totally lost without her...estranged from his life utterly, and from the world. This was the… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“There are certain shocks which, if sufficiently strong, seem to have power to destroy the balance of life. Such a shock would… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“I'd never been anything but 'in transit' through my life. In a sudden, complete, instantaneous vision, I saw it as a train… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life she could talk openly of the things which interested her and were important to her.… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much. — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“The last time she had seen him in the flesh, all the vital force of his life stripped away, his sharpened face… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“I was oppressed by the sense of universal strangeness, by the chill of approaching catastrophe, the menace of ruins suspended above; and… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“She felt herself alone, lost like a stranger in some fantastic country whose language and mode of life were alike incomprehensible, surrounded… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
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… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached. — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“There is, I believe, a kind of telepathy between the condemned: a sort of intuitive recognition which can even make itself felt through the… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me now that I can scarcely tell… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“It was always the same now, the ghost always coming between her and her life in the world, so much more important, since that… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Their eyes met for a moment. And the glance that flickered between them had been a wordless message of understanding, the affirmation of a… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“She looked, and saw the black, domed sky arching over her head. And her heart dilated; she felt the great black dome in her… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“An intolerable pain pierced him. He was totally lost without her...estranged from his life utterly, and from the world. This was the world into… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight.” — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“In a polished surface of metal I happen to notice my reflected face; it wears a pale, beaten lonely look, eyes looking out at… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place. — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an unseen jailer, when all the… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
