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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Roland Barthes
Love, Writing, Hysteria
Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.