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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?
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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me.
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To know that one does not write for the other, to know that 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.
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
John James Audubon
Roland Barthes
Born:
November 12, 1915
Died:
March 26, 1980
(aged 64)
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