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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

source: - Quoted in David Lehman, Signs of the Times (1991)

quote metaphors are much more tenacious than facts paul de man Quotes

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

source: - Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.164, Routledge

Topics: Criticism, Would Be, Movement

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

Topics: Book, Men, Names

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.

source: - Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.152, Routledge

Topics: Agents, Degrees, Action

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

source: - Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.163, Routledge

Topics: Hygiene, Errors, Literature

What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism

source: - Paul De Man (1986). “The Resistance to Theory”, p.11, Manchester University Press

Topics: Reality, Confusion, Natural

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

source: - Paul De Man (1979). “Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust”, p.5, Yale University Press

Topics: Facts, Metaphor

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

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.

source: - Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.152, Routledge

Topics: Nature, Writing, Process, Ambivalence

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.

Topics: Mean, Doe, Language

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.

Topics: Desire, Wipe, Departure

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.

source: - Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.147, Routledge

Topics: Fashion, Flames, Fire

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

source: - Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.165, Routledge

Topics: War, Historical, Revolution, Historical Knowledge

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