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Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

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

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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

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Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

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