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The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying . . .

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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