Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade away for my eyes restores me as a complete image for the unreal eye to which I deny all images. A complete image with reference to a world devoid of image which imagines me in the absence of any imaginable figure. The being of a nonbeing of which I am the infinitely small negation which it instigates as its profound harmony. In the night shall I become the universe?

Maurice Blanchot's Popular Quotes

Express only that which cannot be expressed. Leave it unexpressed)

- Maurice Blanchot

Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It see…

- Maurice Blanchot

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

- Maurice Blanchot

I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for t…

- Maurice Blanchot

I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as fo…

- Maurice Blanchot

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

- Maurice Blanchot

Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimate relation. There is the mistake of Homer, of Shakespeare — which is perhap…

- Maurice Blanchot

To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.

- Maurice Blanchot

What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the …

- Maurice Blanchot