“To try to write love is to confront the muck of language; that region of hysteria where language is
“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 (by the limitless expansion of the ego, by emotive submersion) and impoverished (by the codes on which love diminishes and levels it).” -Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (1977) -- source link
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