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Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.

Anna Kavan

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Anna Kavan
Age: 67 †
Born: 1901
Born: April 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 5
Novelist
Painter
Writer
AS Cannes
Quantity
Unknown
Reality
Something
Always

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