"The fact remains … that what “is” has disappeared: something was there that is there no longer. How..."

“The fact remains … that what “is” has disappeared: something was there that is there no longer. How can I find it again, how can I, in my speech, capture this prior presence that I must exclude in order to speak, in order to speak it? And here we will evoke the eternal torment of our language when its longing turns back toward what it always misses, through the necessity under which it labors of being the lack of what it would say.”

- Maurice Blanchot from The Infinite Conversation  (via mothwood)