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> [To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/to-see-was-terrifying-and-to-stop-seeing-tore-me-apart-from-my/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

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## More by Maurice Blanchot

> [“How not to search that space where, for a time span lasting from dusk to dawn, two beings have no other reason to exist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/how-not-to-search-that-space-where-for-a-time-span-lasting-from-dusk/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/but-my-silence-is-real-if-i-hid-it-from-you-you-would-find-it-again-a/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [“As the German expression has it, the last judgement is the youngest day, and it is a day surpassing all days. Not that judgement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/as-the-german-expression-has-it-the-last-judgement-is-the-youngest/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [“Writing is not destined to leave traces, but to erase, by traces, all traces, to disappear in the fragmentary space of writing more definitely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/writing-is-not-destined-to-leave-traces-but-to-erase-by-traces-all/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [“If the sculptor uses stone and if the road builder also uses stone, the first uses it in a way that it is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/if-the-sculptor-uses-stone-and-if-the-road-builder-also-uses-stone/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/a-writer-who-writes-i-am-alone-can-be-considered-rather-comical-it-is/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [“I went in; I closed the door. I sat down on the bed. Blackest space extended before me. I was not in this blackness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/i-went-in-i-closed-the-door-i-sat-down-on-the-bed-blackest-space/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [“But this is the rule, and there is no way to free oneself of it: as soon as the thought has arisen, it must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/but-this-is-the-rule-and-there-is-no-way-to-free-oneself-of-it-as/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/the-journal-is-not-essentially-a-confession-a-story-about-oneself-it/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/we-can-never-put-enough-distance-between-ourselves-and-what-we-love/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/a-writer-never-reads-his-work-for-him-it-is-the-unreadable-a-secret/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/lovers-of-painting-and-lovers-of-music-are-people-who-openly-display/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [“When Kafka allows a friend to understand that he writes because otherwise he would go mad, he knows that writing is madness already, his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/when-kafka-allows-a-friend-to-understand-that-he-writes-because/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [“The anonymous puts the name in place, leaves it empty, as if the name were there only to let itself be passed through because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/the-anonymous-puts-the-name-in-place-leaves-it-empty-as-if-the-name/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

> [If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/if-nothing-were-substituted-for-everything-it-would-still-be-too-much/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

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