I say ‘I’ to gather myself in, but as the word escapes my mouth I lose it, as I type it I give myself drift.
— Frenet, Journal
I say ‘I’ to gather myself in, but as the word escapes my mouth I lose it, as I type it I give myself drift.
— Frenet, Journal
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At the same time I had to tell myself that we invariably made excessive demands of everything and everybody: nothing is done thoroughly enough, everything is imperfect, everything has been merely attempted, nothing completed. My unhealthy craving for perfection had come to the surface again.
— Thomas Bernhard, Concrete (tr. McLintock)
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I type a few words, halfheartedly, delete half of them, smoke a cigarette, despair of my life, and if the right words come, if one right phrase comes, I’m found, or rather lost in a larger world, at least for a moment.
— Frenet, Journal
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To write is to rewrite, which is to say to quibble, which is to say to lie. Thus to write is the work of the devil and to be written is the work of God. But to write is unavoidable and to write is also to be written.
— Frenet, Journal
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Do I write or am I written? I write and I’m split in half – writing writes me and I’m one. Writing goes on and I’m lost.
— Frenet, Journal
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This journal doesn’t exist. It splits into a hundred pieces as soon as I start writing it.
— Frenet, Journal
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What an ordinary, artificial life I’ve led. And how ordinary and artificial it is to write about it, as if for ‘posterity’. What do I have to say? In an absolute sense, nothing. And that’s what I’m saying.
— Frenet, Journal
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I read to encounter people who take life as seriously as I was meant to, whose very lives are at stake in their writing. But I hardly read, life gets in the way.
— Frenet, Journal
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To encounter someone in the close distance or distant closeness that art creates is easy, but to stay with them in it is almost impossible. Life gets in the way.
— Frenet, Journal
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