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“They are honourable and precious to me, these books, in proportion to their great heroism. They are like members of a suicide squad who do not hesitate to engage the enormously superior enemy, life, upon my behalf.”
― Machines in the Head: The Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan
― Machines in the Head: The Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan
“We're revolutionaries, my friend. Suffering made us. Suffering for the people is what we chose because we sympathized so much with their suffering.”
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“Talking to yourself is the last subterfuge.”
― Thus Were Their Faces
― Thus Were Their Faces
“I feel such sorrow when I think how horror imitates beauty.”
― Thus Were Their Faces
― Thus Were Their Faces
“The thing which does surprise me is my own optimism. Surely I ought to recognize now that my number is up. Where do I always find enough courage for one more last hope? I am the enemy of this indestructible, pitiless hope which prolongs and intensifies all my pain. I would like to lay hold of hope and strangle it once and for all.”
― Machines in the Head: The Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan
― Machines in the Head: The Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan
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