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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."

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"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."

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"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."

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