Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.