Maurice Blanchot
French writer and philosopher
Lived from: 1907 - 2003
Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: France
Born: 22 september 1907 Died: 20 february 2003
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A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
― Maurice Blanchot
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