Paul de Man Quotes

Paul de Man
Belgian Critic
Born: Dec 6, 1919
Died: Dec 21, 1983
Actually Degree Does Facts Language Own
Related authors: Aleister Crowley John Churton Collins Margaret Fuller Pauline Kael Roger Ebert Steven Cojocaru William Hazlitt bell hooks
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. Paul de Man
Death Name Linguistic Predicament Displaced
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. Paul de Man
Nature Writing Own Considered Follows Both Denies Ambivalence After Cannot Process Which Act Interpretive Coincide
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. Paul de Man
Alone Fashion Fire Took Shaped Like Trace Revealing Left Flames Behind Place Ashes Uniquely Actually
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. Paul de Man
More Tenacious Facts Metaphors Than Much
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. Paul de Man
Hope Whatever Marks Out Point Could Wipe True New Reaching Least Came Exists Departure Form Modernity Origin Present Earlier Desire

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