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.

Quote by Paul De Man

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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in...

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in...

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is...

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is...

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both...

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both...

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and...

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and...

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does...

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does...

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects,...

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects,...