Roland Barthes quote: The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: ...

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, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).

~ Roland Barthes ~

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