"Express only that which cannot be expressed. Leave……" — Maurice Blanchot

"Express only that which cannot be expressed. Leave it unexpressed)"

— Maurice Blanchot

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21 Quotes by Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates…
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order…
But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
A story? No. No stories, never again.
I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light;…
To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.
Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as…
The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the…
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to…
The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.
The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have…
The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it…

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More Express Quotes

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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. — Rowan Atkinson
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no… — Gaston Bachelard
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. — Scott Bakula
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't… — Tyra Banks
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed… — Charles Baudelaire
I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me… — Emmanuelle Beart
I love fashion, and that's how I express myself. — Victoria Beckham
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it… — Pope Benedict XVI
Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider. — Buffalo Bill
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a… — Buffalo Bill
Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable… — Ben Affleck

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