"Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.

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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

More Roland Barthes quotes
"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 ot...
"I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.
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"The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, ...