“If one wishes to deceive, what one presents is the paining of a veil, something that incites them to ask what is behind it.”
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Quote modified for brevity and gender neutralized.
More from Jacques Lacan
“Love is giving what you don’t have to someone who dosen’t want it.”
“To love is to give what one does not have to another who does not desire it.”
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?”
“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.”