Status Updates From Was Bleibt

Mi ero resa conto all'improvviso, in un lampo, che a non darmi pace era il dolore. Non lo avevo riconosciuto. Il dolore vero e proprio, violento, si era impossessato di me, mi si era annidato dentro mutandomi in un'altra persona.

“Had I come into this world as a human with a gift for writing and not as a talented tomcat I would certainly not dedicate my life to such a superfluous literary genre as fiction, which, after all, always legitimizes its existence through the yet unexplored depths of the human soul.”