The truth is the thing I invented so I could live
The sound of my own voice frightened me, but I didn't stop.
There was a noise behind me. A creak. This time I didn’t turn. I squeezed my eyes shut. Isaac, I whispered. The sound of my own voice frightened me, but I didn’t stop. I want to tell you – and then I broke off. What do I want to tell you? The truth? What is the truth? That I mistook your mother for my life? No. Isaac, I said. The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.
Now I turned and saw myself in the mirror on Isaac’s wall. A fool in fool’s clothes. I’d come to get back my book, but now I didn’t care whether I found it or not. I thought: Let it be lost like the rest. It didn’t matter, not anymore.
And yet.
by Nicole Krauss(born 1974)
from The History of Love
Here We Are Together
Image – Thor Arvid
December 28th, 2009 at 8:08 am
“The truth is the thing I invented so I could live”
Well isnt that the truth…we tell ourselves all kinds of things to survive in this world…whether is it REAL TRUTH or not is not the point…because it is THE TRUTH to us within…and until we seek to see it as Real or not…we will live by it not matter what!
December 29th, 2009 at 1:15 am
I’ve always believed reality is relative, as is truth.
April 1st, 2010 at 12:49 am
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