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Paul de Man quotes

Belgian Critic December 6, 1919 – December 21, 1983

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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
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
Paul de Man quote: "Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and..."
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
Paul de Man quote: "Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament."
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. 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
...asked by his wife whether he wants to have his bowling shoes laced over or laced under, Archie Bunker answers the question: "What's the difference?" Being a reader of sublime simplicity, his wife replies by patiently explaining the difference between lacing over and lacing under, whatever this may be, but provokes only ire. "What's the difference" did not ask for difference but means instead "I don't give a damn what the difference is. 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
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
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 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
Paul de Man quote: "Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts."
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. Paul de Man

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