Jacques Derrida — "To love is to give what one does not have to someone who does not want it."
To love is to give what one does not have to someone who does not want it.
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This is a popular paraphrase of a Lacanian concept, sometimes mistakenly attributed to Derrida, though he engages with Lacan.
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