#cf.writing

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If you could grasp death as desire answering the question of desire, it would no longer be painful to step through walls into sealed rooms, or ascend into heaven.

Danielle, edwardsaidruinedthenutcracker.tumblr.com

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To know that one does not write for the other, that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love, to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not - this is the beginning of writing.

ROLAND BARTHES ON GETTING OUTSIDE OF ONESELF THROUGH WRITING

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that authority which even the poorest wretch in dying possesses for the living around him. This authority is at the very source of the story. - WALTER BENJAMIN

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Kafka says writing is a form of playing dead as if he wants to say writing and playing dead are ways of being free of some too-muchness of life

ANDRE VANTINO