Quotes by Blanchot, Maurice

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret >>

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no >>

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display t >>

Quotations about Solitude

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and p >>

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. S >>

Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone. >>

A writer who writes, I am alone... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

Blanchot, Maurice