Until now we thought nihilism was tied to nothingness. How ill-considered that was: nihilism is tied to being. Nihilism is the impossibility of being done with it and of finding a way out even in that end that is nothingness. It says the impotence of nothingness, the false brilliance of its victories; it tells us that when we think nothingness we are still thinking being. […] Nihilism tells us its final and rather grim truth: it tells of the impossibility of nihilism. 

Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation