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Some of our favorite excerpts from Roland Barthes’ always compelling A Lover’s Discourse. #bookstagram #books #barthes #quotes #loversdiscourse #lovers #love #valentines #affect #signs https://www.instagram.com/p/CLNDlhbDeXS/?igshid=k33epxt2xr3

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Every episode of language refers to the ‘sensation of truth’ the amorous subject experiences in thinking of his love, either because he believes he is the only one to see the loved object ‘in the truth’, or because he defines the specialty of his own requirement as a truth concerning which he cannot yield.

The amorous subject, according to one contingency or another, feels swept away by the danger, an injury, an abandonment, a revulsion - a sentiment he expresses under the name anxiety.

Any thought, any feeling, any interest aroused in the amorous subject by the loved body.

Two powerful myths have persuaded us that love could, should be sublimated in aesthetic creation: the Socratic myth (loving serves to "engender a host of beautiful discourses") and the romantic myth (I shall produce an immortal work by writing my passion).