"To know that one does not write for the other, to know these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not - this is the beginning of writing."
Barthes, A Lover's Discourse
1978:100 (trans. Richard Howard, Penguin)
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