"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"

- Jacques Lacan

"I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you."

- Jacques Lacan

"Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it."

- Jacques Lacan

"There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore, I must destroy you."

- Jacques Lacan

"I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming."

- Jacques Lacan