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“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― The Pleasure of the Text
― The Pleasure of the Text
“Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.
Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.”
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.”
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
“As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
2019 Reading Challenge: 12 Books by 12 Black Women Writers
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I'm making a small commitment in 2019 to read one book a month that was written, or co-written, by a Black woman. My hopes for this group include: 1 ...more
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