"Literature professes to be important while at the……" — Maurice Blanchot
"Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought."
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Maurice Blanchot
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21 Quotes by Maurice Blanchot
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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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I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light;…
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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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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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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that.
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What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases…
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