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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."
"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
"Don't depend on the thoughts, "I need more time". There are only 24 hours in each day. You can't make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit."
"Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightsFour nights will quickly dream away the time."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"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 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."
"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
"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 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."
"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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