Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
Death and Dying
Quotations by Paul De Man
Quotes :
- Yukio Mishima – dignity of life "We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. ... that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be…
- Frase celebre di Jean Paul «Berlino è piuttosto una parte del mondo che una città.» (Jean Paul)
- Frase celebre di Paul Klee «L'arte non riproduce ciò che è visibile, ma rende visibile ciò che non sempre lo è.» (Paul Klee)
- Paul Kalanithi Quotes “All the idylls of youth: beauty manifest in lakes, mountains, people; richness in experience, conversation, friendships. Nights during a full moon, the light flooded the wilderness, so it was possible to hike without a headlamp. We would hit the trail at two A.M., summiting the nearest peak, Mount Tallac, just before sunrise, the clear, starry night reflected in the flat, still lakes spread below us.…