"A writer never reads his work. For him,……" — 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 secret, because he is separated from it."
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- The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of… — Marianne Williamson
- Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action… — Mother Teresa
- A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering...… — Elie Wiesel
- Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be… — Oscar Romero
- When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with… — Tejomayananda
- Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
- Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not… — J.R.R. Tolkien
- Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased… — Orson Scott Card
- . . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in… — Nathaniel Altman
- But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. — Louise Bogan
- Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been. — William Harvey
- Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad! — Gilbert K. Chesterton