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No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven.

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If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

Ifs, Nothing, Quickly, Reads, Slowly, Understands
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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

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The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Death, Displaced, Dying, Linguistic, Name, Names

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Coincide, Coincidence, Follows, Nature, Writing
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