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

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

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.

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

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

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

Paul De Man quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Paul De Man quotes: What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism

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

Paul De Man quotes: If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

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

Paul De Man quotes: No one in his right mind will try to grow grapes by the luminosity of the word "day.

No one in his right mind will try to grow grapes by the luminosity of the word "day.

Paul De Man quotes: Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Paul De Man quotes: 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.

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.

Paul De Man quotes: 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.

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.