Thursday, 25 December 2025

"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)