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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
"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."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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