"The writer's language is to some degree the……" — Paul de Man
"The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language."
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13 Quotes by Paul de Man
Paul de Man has 13 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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