Famous Quotes / Paul De Man
11 Quotations by Paul De Man
- 1. Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it s ...
- 2. Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
- 3. Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone rev ...
- 4. Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its ow ...
- 5. Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the mo ...
- 6. Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
- 7. Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching ...
- 8. The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process ...
- 9. The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process ...
- 10. The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, w ...
- 11. The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and ...