“Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?”

—  Roland Barthes, book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

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French philosopher, critic and literary theorist 1915–1980

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