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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.
Paul de Man
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
Paul de Man
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
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.
Paul de Man
Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It is an act of understanding that can never be observed, nor in any way prescribed or verified.
Paul de Man
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
Paul de Man
Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
Paul de Man
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
Paul de Man
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
Paul de Man
Paul de Man
Occupation:
Belgian Critic
Born:
December 6, 1919
Died:
December 21, 1983
Quotes count:
10
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