Caleb

“Literature involves the voiding, rather than the affirmation, of aesthetic categories.”
― Paul De Man, The Resistance to Theory

“The whole is false.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Ours is the ability, the need, to gainsay or ‘un-say’ the world, to image and speak it otherwise. In that capacity in its biological and social evolution, may lie some of the clues to the question of the origins of human speech and the multiplicity of tongues. It is not, perhaps, ‘a theory of information’ that will serve us best in trying to clarify the nature of language, but a ‘theory of misinformation’.”
― George Steiner, After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

“Life has become the ideology of its own absence.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life