"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic…" — Paul de Man
"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament."
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13 Quotes by Paul de Man
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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at…
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Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says…
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows…
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If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.
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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
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What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism
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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own…
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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the…
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Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which…
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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most…
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Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that…
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The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise…
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More Death Quotes
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one of 13,020 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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