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Samuel Beckett
“Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.”
Samuel Beckett, Molloy

Thomas Bernhard
“Reading is still the most bearable of all forms of disgust.”
Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles

James Baldwin
“All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours.”
James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

Jorge Luis Borges
“You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?”
Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

Maurice Blanchot
“A word may give me its meaning, but first it suppresses it. For me to be able to say, 'This woman' I must somehow take her flesh and blood reality away from her, cause her to be absent, annihilate her. The word gives me the being, but it gives it to me deprived of being. The word is the absence of that being, its nothingness, what is left of it when it has lost being - the very fact that it does not exist.”
Maurice Blanchot, Literature and the Right to Death

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