"If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything."
― Jacques Derrida
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"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets."
― Jacques Derrida |
"Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited."
― Jacques Derrida |
"In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language."
― Jacques Derrida |
"No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing."
― Jacques Derrida |
"I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict."
― Jacques Derrida
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"The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye."
― Jacques Derrida |
"Who ever said that one was born just once?" ― Jacques Derrida |
"The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language." ― Jacques Derrida |
"What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written."
― Jacques Derrida
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"A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game."
― Jacques Derrida |
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend."
― Jacques Derrida
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"Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?"
― Jacques Derrida |
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"The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived." ― Jacques Derrida |
"I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die."
― Jacques Derrida |
"I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts." ― Jacques Derrida |
"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."
― Jacques Derrida |
"The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages."
― Jacques Derrida |
"Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school."
― Jacques Derrida |
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