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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

Roland Barthes
Waiting, Constant, Prerogative
Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one 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 lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

Roland Barthes
Games, Play, Waiting

The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

Roland Barthes
Waiting, Identity, Lovers

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