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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
"Do it or not, but do."
"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."
"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
"Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"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."
"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."
"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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