Quotes of Maurice Blanchot - somelinesforyou

“ Death, in the human perspective, is not a given, it must be achieved. It is a task, one which we take up actively, one which becomes the source of our activity and mastery. Man dies, that is nothing. But man is, starting from his death. He ties himself tight to his death with a tie of which he is the judge. He makes his death; he makes himself mortal and in this way gives himself the power of a maker and gives to what he makes its meaning and its truth. The decision to be without being is possibility itself: the possibility of death. ”

- Maurice Blanchot

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Time

“ Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ”

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Conceited

“ There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act… ”

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Contract

“ To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking — and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence. ”

- Maurice Blanchot

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Ceaseless

“ A writer who writes, "I am alone"… can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread… ”

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Considered

“ To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking — and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence. ”

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Discourse

“ To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking — and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence. ”

- Maurice Blanchot

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Decisive

“ Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ”

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Delectable

“ There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act… ”

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Domesticated

“ There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act… ”

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Deal

“ To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking — and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence. ”

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Echo

“ A writer who writes, "I am alone"… can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread… ”

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Exclude

“ There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act… ”

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Entrust

“ Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ”

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Frankly

“ There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act… ”

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Function

“ A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it. ”

- Maurice Blanchot

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Face

“ A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it. ”

- Maurice Blanchot

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Hidden

“ There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act… ”

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Instrument

“ Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ”

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Isolate

“ To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking — and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence. ”

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Incessant

“ Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ”

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Liking

“ Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ”

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Lover

“ There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act… ”

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“ Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ”

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Openly

“ A writer who writes, "I am alone"… can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread… ”

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Oneself

“ To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking — and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence. ”

- Maurice Blanchot

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Oneself

“ Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ”

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Preference

“ Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ”

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Painting

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- Maurice Blanchot

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Proud

“ A writer who writes, "I am alone"… can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread… ”

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Presence