1. "Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering."
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Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary
2. "I have not a desire but a need for solitude."
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Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary
3. "Suicide How would I know I don’t suffer any more, if I’m dead?"
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Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary
4. "We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us."
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Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary
5. "To whom can I put this question (with any hopes of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought... ?"
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Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary
6. "الأدب هو ألا أستطيع أن أقرأ دون ألم ودون اختناق ."
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Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary
7. "I live in my suffering and that makes me happy. Anything that keeps me from living in my suffering is unbearable to me."
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Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary
8. "I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life."
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Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary
9. "Everyone is extremely nice—and yet I feel entirely alone. (Abandonitis)."
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Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary
10. "I ask for nothing but to live in my suffering."
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Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary