Quotes by Paul De Man

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

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

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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

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

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

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

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

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

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Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire,...

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