"The ambivalence of writing is such that it……" — Paul de Man
"The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature."
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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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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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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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