Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Tag: love
Johnny Thunders: “Great Big Kiss”
TRACEY EMIN
Tracey Emin
I Wonder About Your Smile
1998
Louise Gluck
Tracey Emin, 2007
In love, the lovers do not succeed in coinciding with each other, so to speak. Fashionable sadness! Love, however, is the proximity of the other—where the other remains other. I think that when the other is ‘always other,’ there is the essence of love.
Emmanuel Levinas, from an interview with Francois Poirie, Is It Righteous to Be? Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas (via ecrituria)
The wound can have (should only have) just one proper name. I recognize that I love — you — by this: you leave in me a wound I do not want to replace.
Jacques Derrida (trans. Alan Bass), The Postcard: from Socrates to Freud and Beyond (via stoicremains)
Little Bristling Soul 