Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.

— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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