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Every word I read I swoon. Just... effervescent.

Speech is always the speech of authority (to speak is always to speak according to the authority of speech). But there is no sceptre for the one who writes, even disguised as a beggar's stick: nothing to lean on and no moving along.

Writing marks and leaves marks. What is entrusted to it remains. With it history starts in the institutional form of the Book and time as inscription in the heaven of stars begins with earthly traces, monuments, works. Writing is remembrance, written remembrance prolongs life during death.

To awaken his attention: there was nothing to that; he was always awakened to the point that all that seemed to remain of him was the emptiness of a vigilant wait, the distracted absence, nonetheless, of inattention.

For having always lacked the present, the event had always disappeared without leaving any trace but that of a hope for the past, to the point of making the future the prophecy of an empty past.