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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.
— Maurice Blanchot
But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
— Gertrude Stein
A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.
— J.S.B. Morse
Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.
— Evo Morales
I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.
— Max Thieriot
He had received already a larger dose of life than he had bargained for, and he was scared.
— Graham Greene
I was stunned with outrage.
— Tony Benn
Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.
— Betty Cuthbert
They who were so important, who wanted to create the world, are dumbfounded; everything crumbles.
— Maurice Blanchot
But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
— Maurice Blanchot
The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.
— Maurice Blanchot
The feeling of the uselessness of what I am doing is linked to this other feeling that nothing is more serious.
— Maurice Blanchot
To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.
— Maurice Blanchot
When all you know is how to use a hammer, you think hitting should solve every problem.
— Nana Awere Damoah
We cannot do anything with an object that has no name.
— Maurice Blanchot
Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.
— Maurice Blanchot
Express only that which cannot be expressed. Leave it unexpressed)
— Maurice Blanchot
The disaster ... is what escapes the very possibility of experience - it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.
— Maurice Blanchot
If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.
— Maurice Blanchot
A story? No. No stories, never again.
— Maurice Blanchot
But this is the rule, and there is no way to free oneself of it: as soon as the thought has arisen, it must be followed to the very end.
— Maurice Blanchot