Quotes by Maurice Blanchot

About Maurice Blanchot:

Maurice C. Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. His work had a strong influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Jacques Derrida.
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The central point of the work of art is the work as origin, the point which cannot be reached, yet the only one which is worth reaching.

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As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly and completely miserable, I was nevertheless, and nearly all the time, extremely happy. That gave me something to think about. The disc...

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But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.

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It was in this situation that she penetrated as a vague shape into the existence of Thomas. Everything there appeared desolate and mournful. Deserted shores where deeper and deeper absences, abandoned by the eternally departed sea after a magnificent...

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How not to search that space where, for a time span lasting from dusk to dawn, two beings have no other reason to exist than to expose themselves totally to each other- totally, integrally, absolutely- so that their common solitude may appear not in ...

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The authentic answer is always the question’s vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by keeping it open.

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When Kafka allows a friend to understand that he writes because otherwise he would go mad, he knows that writing is madness already, his madness, a kind of vigilence, unrelated to any wakefulness save sleep's: insomnia. Madness against madness, then....

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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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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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Author Bio

  • NameMaurice Blanchot
  • DescriptionFrench writer, philosopher, and literary theorist
  • BornSeptember 22, 1907
  • DiedFebruary 20, 2003
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Writer