Quotes by : Maurice Blanchot

The central point of the work of art is the work as origin, the point which cannot be reached, yet the....

But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.

As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought....

The authentic answer is always the question’s vitality. It can close in around the question, but it....

Why are those who knew him, when they pass from the memory of a young man, sensitive and gay, to the....

When Kafka allows a friend to understand that he writes because otherwise he would go mad, he knows that....

Art is not religion, 'it doesn't even lead to religion.' But in the time of distress which is ours, the....

Reading is ignorant. It begins with what it reads and in this way discovers the force of a beginning.....

How not to search that space where, for a time span lasting from dusk to dawn, two beings have no other....

Do not forgive. Forgiveness accuses before it forgives. By accusing, by stating the injury, it makes....