Meditações - a escrita e o tempo

To write is to no longer put in the future a death always already past, but to accept that one must endure it without making it present and without making oneself present to it; it is to know that death has taken place even though it has not been experienced, and to recognize it in the forgetting that it leaves, whose traces, which can be erased, call upon one to exempt oneself from the cosmic order—where disaster makes the real impossible and desire undesirable.

Maurice Blanchot