Paul de Man Quotes
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
Paul de Man
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Author Details:
Type:
Critic Quotes
Category:
Quotes
Date of Birth:
December 6, 1919
Date of Death:
December 21, 1983
Nationality:
Belgian
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George Edward Woodberry
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Aleister Crowley
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M. H. Abrams
Margaret Fuller
William Hazlitt
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