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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.Roland Barthes
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Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.Roland Barthes
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Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it’s when we’re busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness, calm, solitude makes us less miserable.Roland Barthes
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I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.Roland Barthes
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I have not a desire but a need for solitude.Roland Barthes
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Miseries of a birth.Roland Barthes