"Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it."

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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.

— Roland Barthes