Maurice Blanchot Quotes

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.

Maurice Blanchot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: September 27, 1907 - February 20, 2003

Topics

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Every girl I've ever dated I have respect for, and I always try to leave them in good terms.

Joel Madden

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Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.

John Mackey

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Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Robert Kiyosaki

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Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

Jean Kerr

BabyYouPersonNowHaving A Baby

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

Mercedes Ruehl

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I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.

Amor Towles

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We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

Tom Hicks

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What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.

Ruth Reichl

LearningChallengeBestComfortKnow

I'm all in favor of the FTC investigating companies when it believes there is proper cause to do so. An investigation, however, can lead to political pressure to bring a case, even if such a case is unwarranted.

Marvin Ammori

PressurePoliticalLeadBringFavor

And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.

Jason Reitman

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The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer.

Joseph Jacobs

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You have to be a mindful eater. There has to be intention in what you do in your life if you're going to be happy and authentic. Food isn't supposed to be entertainment in the way that your kids, your work, and your relationship are.

Jorge Cruise

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