If I were to turn these love letters into a
book, the inscription would be by Barthes, & it would say:
To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these
things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the
one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for
nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where
you are not — this is the beginning of writing.
- Jenny Boully, The Body: An Essay
It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at
pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with
assurance, admire what is beautiful.
- Vincent van Gogh
Basically, even in the midst of one of my attacks of
melancholy, I was never too sure what to do with this life except
love it, love it to distraction and tell it so: write love letters,
illuminate the whiteness of a sheet of paper by sprinkling ink on
it. [...] The composition of love letters is, to be sure, not a very
serious occupation and lacks great economic importance. But if no
one practiced it anymore, if no one reminded life of its own purity,
then life would end up letting itself wither away and die, don’t you
think?
- Christian Bobin,
I Never Dared Hope for You
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