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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking --and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

Source: The Essential Solitude, in The Space of Literature; 1955; repr. in The Gaze of Orpheus, ed. P. Adams Sitney, 1981.
-- Maurice Blanchot, (Sep 22 1907-2003), French writer, philosopher,literary theorist; His best-known fictional works are Thomas the Obscure, an unsettlingly abstract novel about the experience of reading and loss; Death Sentence; Aminadab and The Most High about a bureaucrat in a totalitarian state.

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