Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Spiegelbild
Dieser Spiegel.
Dieser Blick.
Bindet dich wie ein Siegel.
Findest dich darin schick.
Täglich putzt du diesen Pokal.
Verehrst es wie einen Thron.
Bist jeden Tag in dem Lokal.
Lacht es zurück mit Hohn.
Du hast vergessen zu gehen.
Bist zu lange geblieben.
Liegst jetzt hier mit Wehen.
Wer kann dich jetzt noch lieben?
Alles nur Schau.
Alles nur Kunst.
Bist nur Laie auf diesem Bau.
Hast längst verloren die Gunst.
So versteck dich im Dunkeln.
Wo dich niemand mehr sucht.
Hast in den Augen kein Funkeln.
Nur noch einer blieb, der über dich flucht.
Das Werkzeug
Dieses Kribbeln im Kopf.
Ich schreibe keine Geschichten.
Ich dokumentiere sie.
Wie sie in mir entstehen.
In mir zum Leben erwachen und sich entfalten.
Ich bin kein Autor.
Ich bin nur ein Werkzeug.
– sanados
When others asked the truth of me …
When others asked the truth of me,
I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted,
but an illusion they could bear to live with.
– Anaïs Nin
Our love of each other was …
Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
– Anaïs Nin
I believe one writes because …
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
– Anaïs Nin
We are like sculptors …
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
– Anaïs Nin
Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows …
“Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman’s womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to be. But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment man rests inside of her.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
People living deeply have no fear of death.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
– Anaïs Nin
The role of a writer …
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
– Anaïs Nin
I am only responsible for my own heart …
I am only responsible for my own heart,
you offered yours up for the smashing my darling.
Only a fool would give out such a vital organ.
– Anaïs Nin
I was never insane …
I was never insane.
Except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
– Edgar Allan Poe