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Paul de Man

"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."

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Brennan Manning

"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."

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Brennan Manning

"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

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Brennan Manning

"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

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Brennan Manning

"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."

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Brennan Manning

"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

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Brennan Manning

"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"

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Brennan Manning

"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

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Brennan Manning

"Sand by the seashore is inestimable."

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Brennan Manning

"It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees."

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Brennan Manning

"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

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Paul de Man
"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

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Paul de Man
"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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Paul de Man
"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."

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Paul de Man
"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."

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Paul de Man
"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."

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Paul de Man
"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts."

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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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Paul de Man
"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament."

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Paul de Man
"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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