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Readers share Maurice Blanchot's meditation on waiting
Original: L'impossibilité d'attendre appartient essentiellement à l'attente. Blanchot ~ L'attente L'oubli https:// youtu.be/HrL_0Y
A line from French writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot — "the impossibility of waiting belongs essentially to waiting" — is being circulated among readers of literature and philosophy, drawn from his text "L'Attente l'oubli" (The Waiting, the Forgetfulness). The passage is being paired with atmospheric photography, prompting discussion of Blanchot's spare, paradoxical prose and his meditations on time, absence and patience.
Why now: People are sharing an evocative literary quote that resonates with readers of French philosophy and literature.
Maurice BlanchotL'Attente l'oubliMorten Lasskogen
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