"It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.
what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force ...
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