"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."

Maurice Blanchot

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