"I wanted to see something in full daylight;……" — Maurice Blanchot
"I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness."
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Maurice Blanchot
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21 Quotes by Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot has 21 quotes on this site.
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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates…
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order…
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But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
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A story? No. No stories, never again.
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To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.
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Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as…
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The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the…
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A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to…
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The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.
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Express only that which cannot be expressed. Leave it unexpressed)
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The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have…
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The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it…
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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