Quotes by Paul De Man - Page 1

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
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Facts
Metaphor
Tenacious
More Than Much
Metaphors
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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
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Death
Dying
Names
Name
Displaced
Linguistic
Predicament
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If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.
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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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Errors
Hygiene
Literature
Betrays
Error
Exists
Mode
Same Time
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What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism
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Confusion
Natural
Reality
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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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Agents
Degrees
Historian
Writing
Agent
Degree
Product
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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.
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Ashes
Fashion
Fire
Flames
Revealing
Shaped
Trace
Uniquely
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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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Describing
Doe
Language
Mean
Curiously
Mode
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The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.
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War
Historical Knowledge
Revolution
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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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Critical
Method
Modernity
Appear
Denies
Literary
Movements
Respects
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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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Criticism
Movement
Would Be
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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.
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Men
Book
Names
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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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Departure
Desire
Form
Modernity
Reaching
Wipe
Came
Earlier
Exists
Least
Marks
Present
Origin
Point
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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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Nature
Ambivalence
Coincidence
Writing
Considered
Coincide
Denies
Follows
Interpretive
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