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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts."
Fact
"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."
Nature
"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."
Language
"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."
Action
"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being."
Time
"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
Modernity
"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament."
Death
"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."
Hope
"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."
Fashion
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