Maurice Blanchot Quotes

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 this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.

Maurice Blanchot

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• I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • High
  • Breakfast
  • Short

• If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Change

• Think and grow rich.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Grow

• I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Difficult
  • Adolescence

• Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Good
  • Game
  • Reality

• I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Creative

• Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Love
  • You
  • Losing

• I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Think
  • Hand
  • Daughter

• I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Children
  • High
  • Education

• I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Never
  • Broken
  • Clothes

• I exercise five days a week at home.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Home
  • Exercise
  • Week

• If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you're basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Journey

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • She
  • Nation
  • Agriculture

• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Always
  • Been
  • Around

• He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Way
  • Service
  • Used

• I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Myself
  • Street
  • Woods

• Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Humanity
  • Hard
  • Intelligence

• The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • God
  • Power
  • Belief

• As a private person, I am maybe more 'Eurovision' than Kasper Juul.

  

  Pilou Asbaek

• When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Team
  • Support

• Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Today
  • Language
  • Lying

• 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 this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Perfect
  • Language
  • Identity