Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

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.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

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

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

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

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.