56 Quotes by Anna Kavan

To speak of the catastrophe was an offense under the new regulations. The rule was to choose not to know. Remembering how I myself had wished to forget on another occasion, I understood the euphoric blindness without condoning it.

The past had vanished and become nothing; the future was the inconceivable nothingness of annihilation. All that was left was the ceaselessly shrinking fragment of time called ‘now’.