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Paul De Man Quotes

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament Picture Quote #1

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts Picture Quote #1

What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism Picture Quote #1

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions Picture Quote #1

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament (Paul De Man Quotes) Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts (Paul De Man Quotes) What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism (Paul De Man Quotes) If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing (Paul De Man Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being (Paul De Man Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions (Paul De Man Quotes)