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Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.

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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

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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 ot...more

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The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

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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, ...more

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Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.