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- The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which…
- Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
- The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
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