Blanchot, Maurice

"To exist authentically is to acknowledge our fundamental solitude."

"The image is what remains when language fails."

"Death is not the opposite of life but its secret interior."

"To speak truthfully is to betray the limits of truth."

"The friend is the one we meet beyond ourselves."

"Courage is the facing of that which terrifies."

"The disaster arrives like a thief, taking what we did not know we had."

"Writing transforms the writer more than it transforms the reader."

"Knowledge is the encounter with that which cannot be known."

"The work resists completion; it insists on remaining open."

"Language both reveals and conceals simultaneously."

"Power is the illusion that we are masters of meaning."

"To love the other is to love their absolute alterity."

"The night teaches what reason cannot comprehend."

"Responsibility is answering to what we cannot answer for."

"The fragment speaks the truth that wholeness cannot."

"To create is to engage with the resistance of the given."

"Patience is the virtue of those who have surrendered haste."

"The image demands we see what we prefer to overlook."

"Beauty withdraws as we attempt to possess it."

"Freedom is the experience of our own contingency."

"The book preserves what life disperses."