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• Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a…
• Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one…
• The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an…
• If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.
• Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
• What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism
• Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of…
• The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of…
• Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names…
• The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of…
• Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
• Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire…

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