Thomas
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“You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?”
― The Library of Babel
― The Library of Babel
“A word may give me its meaning, but first it suppresses it. For me to be able to say, 'This woman' I must somehow take her flesh and blood reality away from her, cause her to be absent, annihilate her. The word gives me the being, but it gives it to me deprived of being. The word is the absence of that being, its nothingness, what is left of it when it has lost being - the very fact that it does not exist.”
― Literature and the Right to Death
― Literature and the Right to Death
“To name the cat is, if you like, to make it into a non-cat, a cat that has ceased to exist, has ceased to be a living cat, but this does not mean one is making it into a dog, or even a non-dog.”
― Literature and the Right to Death
― Literature and the Right to Death
“Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.”
― Molloy
― Molloy
“I am still alive then. That may come in useful.”
― Molloy
― Molloy
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