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.

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.

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

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.

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.