"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts." — Paul de Man
"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts."
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Paul de Man
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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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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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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact…
— Giorgio Armani
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
— Karen Armstrong
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
— Antonin Artaud
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first…
— David Attenborough
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a…
— Chinua Achebe
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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