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

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

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

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.

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

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