Citations

"Par-delà toutes les raisons sociales et psychologiques que je peux trouver à ce que j'ai vécu, il en est une dont je suis sûre plus que tout : les choses me sont arrivées pour que j'en rende compte. Et le véritable but de ma vie est peut-être seulement celui-ci : que mon corps, mes sensations et mes pensées deviennent de l'écriture, c'est-à-dire quelque chose d'intelligible et de général, mon existence complètement dissoute dans la tête et la vie des autres."
Annie Ernaux, L'évènement

"Si je ne pensais pas que la mission d'un écrivain est d'analyser sincèrement ce qu'il éprouve dans les graves circonstances de la vie, et si je ne me proposais pas un but que je crois utile, je m'arrêterais ici, et je n'essaierais pas de décrire ce que j'éprouvais ensuite dans une série de visions insensées peut-être, ou vulgairement maladives."
Gérard de Nerval, Aurélia

mercredi 1 février 2012

Lies


- This ain't a game, he said.
- Good, 'cause I ain't playing anymore, she said back.
But then, upon the next few months, she sadly witnessed the prooves of his duplicity, his unrealibility, the inconsistency of his words.
She watched him using the same tricks on all these other women - quite an amount of them were falling in the traps he had set.
She grew even sadder when she realised she'd been dreaming all these time. This so-called romance was pure imagination... it felt like her soul had been soiled. She had fooled herself once again, with still the same usless, pointless ideals... She wished she could wash them all off, and get free at last. 
She turned to the mirror and watched herself. Tears were falling off, water accumulating in the wrinckles which were yet starting to dig her face, deeper with the crying. She wished she could rip her skin off, all of it, and start growing a new one, all soften and soft and ferm. She could see it, so beautiful, so clean, so pure.
We ain't young and beautiful anymore, we never were, we never will be. Secret hopes are falling apart. All of this was just hypothetical promises, childish wishes, long-learnt lies from conventional moovies and soap operas. They had grown so numerous in her head, tightly linked to one another. She was affraid she would find herself empty, if she got rid of them all.
And they had sex like she never did in her whole life.

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