Littles Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Maurice Blanchot