Silly Cakes

5. 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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—	Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

2. Yet, within this infantile embrace, the genital unfailingly appears; it cuts off the diffuse sensuality of the incestuous embrace; the logic of desire begins to function, the will-to-possess returns, the adult is superimposed upon the child. I am then two subjects at once: I want maternity AND genitality. (The lover might be defined as a child getting an erection: such was the young Eros.)

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—	Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

desire demands the greatest possibility of loss

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—	georges bataille