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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"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."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
"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."
"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."
"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being."
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