(Some Days Are Better Than Others)
"I think that an author writes because he needs to create a world in which to live. I could never live in any of the worlds that I have been offered: the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create one of my own, as a place, a region, an atmosphere in which to breathe, reign, and recreate them when I was exhausted by life. This, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.
L 'is the only artist I know that the world is an individual creation, that there is a choice to make a selection. It 's a materialization, an incarnation of his inner world. So I hope to attract others. He hopes to be able to impose its way of seeing things and share it with others. And when it fails to reach the second stage, the artist, however, still bravely groped.
few moments of communication with the world worth it, because it is a world for others, a legacy for others, a gift.
But writing also to increase our awareness of life. We write to flatter and enchant and console others. We write to make a serenade our lovers.
We write to taste life twice, in the present moment and in recollection. We write, like Proust, to make things eternal, and convince ourselves that is eternal. We write in order to transcend our life, to get beyond it. Write to teach ourselves to speak. We write to expand our world when we feel stifled, or limited, or even alone. We write as birds sing, like its wild dance rituals. If writing is not breathing, if you do not cry if you do not sing, then do not write, (...).
When I write I feel my world shrinking. It 'like I was in prison. I feel that I lost my focus and my color. Must be a necessity, as the sea needs to ripple, and this I call it breathing.
For too many centuries we have been occupied to act as''muse''artists. (...) The blame is to create a very strange disease, and affects men - because the culture has prompted the man to make the most of their talent. The man is encouraged by the culture to become a great doctor, a great philosopher, a great scholar, a great writer. Everything is planned to push in that direction. All this has never been applied to women. And in my family, as your probably everyone expected me to just get married, I was a wife, and children grow up. But not all women are brought to this, and sometimes, as DH Lawrence rightly said, "We do not need children, but of hope."
So this is what I intend to do: take all.
Why Baudelaire long ago told me that each of us is a man, a woman, a child - and that child has always problems.
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The woman of the future that is emerging today, a woman will be completely free from any sense of guilt and to create their own personal growth. It will be a woman in harmony with his own strength, but not unfeminine, or eccentric, or somehow unnatural. I imagine he is living with his quiet strength and its serenity, a woman who can speak to children and men who Sometimes the fear. The person feels uncomfortable with this evolution of the woman, but it should not be - because you will find a companion, not a person in his service. Someone who will not feel alone in his daily battle against the world to support a wife and a son or a wife who is like a child. The woman of the future will never seek to live vicariously through the man and encourage him and push him to despair, to achieve anything I should do herself. "
(Anaïs Nin, 1971 - Mystic of sex )
