In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: art
In May, she wrote to tell me that she was coming to New york or a week in June. She was going to stay with me, but her letters made it clear that the visit didnt mean a resumption for our old life. As the day approached, my agitation mounted. By the morning of her arrival, it had reached a pitch that felt something like an inner scream.The very thought that I would soon see Erica again didnt excite me as much as wound me. As I wandered around the loft trying to calm myself, I realized that I was holding my chest like a man who had just been stabbed. After sitting down, I tried to untangled that feeling of injury but couldnt do it - not fully.
Siri Hustvedtunder our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves that night, as if we were other people looking down on the couple who lay together on the bed
Siri HustvedtThat is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: language
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: culture illness sickness personal-history
I've come to think of consciousness as a continuum of states, from fully awake cogitation to daydreaming to the altered consciousness of hallucinations and dreams. Still, interpreting dreams can only take place when we're awake. I believe meaning is what the mind makes and wants. It's essential to perception and to consciousness in all its forms. But the important meanings of psychotherapy are subjective. There's a lot of research that confirms that drem content reflects the dreamer's emotional conflicts.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: dreams
The second anniversary opened an internal crack in Sonia, a fissure through which she released the explosive feeling that had horrified her for two years. The conflagration that had burned so many, that had pushed people into the open air, onto the ledges from which they jumped, some of them on fire, had left its unspeakable images inside my niece. ...Sonia didn't want a world in which buildings fell down and wars were fought for no reason.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: 9-11
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: inner-life
Jede Geschichte, die wir über uns erzählen, kann nur in der Vergangenheit erzählt werden. Sie spult sich von dort, wo wir heute stehen, nach rückwärts ab, und wir sind nicht mehr ihre Akteure, sondern ihre Zuschauer, die sich entschieden haben zu sprechen. Manchmal ist die Spur hinter uns mit Steinen markiert, wie die, die Hänsel hinter sich fallen ließ. Dann wieder ist die Fährte fort, weil bei Sonnenaufgang die Vögel herabgeflogen sind und alle Krumen aufgepickt haben.
Siri HustvedtI don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: words write letter miles envelope
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