…die Schrift ist ursprünglich die Sprache des Abwesenden…
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
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[Writing was in its origin the voice of an absent person]
Chi comanda al racconto non è la voce: è l’orecchio.
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
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[It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.]
Un cuerpo es un cuerpo, sólo las voces sirven para amar.
The Absent City by Ricardo Piglia
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[A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love.]
Il n’est pas vrai que plus on aime, mieux on comprend ; ce que l’action amoureuse obtient de moi, c’est seulement cette sagesse : que l’autre n’est pas à connaître
A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
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[It is not true that the more you love, the better you understand; all that the action of love obtains from me is merely this wisdom: that the other is not to be known]
…Earth’s the right place for love:
“Birches” by Robert Frost
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.