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A Lover's Discourse

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A 1977 book by Roland Barthes exploring the phenomenology of being in love, particularly the experience of waiting

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"'Am I in love? — Yes, since I'm waiting. The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game: whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lov"
from Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse (1977) · u/NadruYakhni · ↑41 · 2021-12-16
"from Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse (1977)"
from Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse (1977) · u/NadruYakhni · ↑41 · 2021-12-16
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