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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.

Source: A Lover's Discourse, Inexpressible Love, 1977.
-- Roland Barthes, (Nov 12 1915-1980), French critic; He was known for his contributions to structural linguistics and New Criticism intellectual movement; wrote Writing Degree Zero, 1953.

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