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Jacques Derrida quotes: I'm no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).

I'm no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).

Jacques Derrida quotes: How can I say 'I love you', if I know the love is you .. the word 'love' either as a verb or a noun would be destroyed in front

How can I say 'I love you', if I know the love is you .. the word 'love' either as a verb or a noun would be destroyed in front of you

Jacques Derrida quotes: Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

Jacques Derrida quotes: Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.

Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.

Jacques Derrida quotes: If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

Jacques Derrida quotes: Beauty only happens once.

Beauty only happens once.

Jacques Derrida quotes: Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.

Jacques Derrida quotes: Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

Jacques Derrida quotes: Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.

Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.

Jacques Derrida quotes: The Ethical can therefore end up making us irresponsible.

The Ethical can therefore end up making us irresponsible.

Jacques Derrida quotes: It is just that there be law, but law is not justice

It is just that there be law, but law is not justice

Jacques Derrida quotes: One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.

One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.

Jacques Derrida quotes: As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Jacques Derrida quotes: If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

Jacques Derrida quotes: The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.

The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.

Jacques Derrida quotes: There is nothing outside of the text.[Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.]

There is nothing outside of the text.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.]

Jacques Derrida quotes: Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

Jacques Derrida quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

Jacques Derrida quotes: I absolutely forbade all public photographs of myself. I like photography, I don't have anything against it, but ...

I absolutely forbade all public photographs of myself. I like photography, I don't have anything against it, but ...

Jacques Derrida quotes: Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Jacques Derrida quotes: Circumcision , that's all I've ever talked about.

Circumcision , that's all I've ever talked about.

Jacques Derrida quotes: I love language as I love life itself!

I love language as I love life itself!

Jacques Derrida quotes: I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

Jacques Derrida quotes: To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Jacques Derrida quotes: These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

Jacques Derrida quotes: Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

Jacques Derrida quotes: Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

Jacques Derrida quotes: What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Jacques Derrida quotes: The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Jacques Derrida quotes: If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction

Jacques Derrida quotes: And in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.

And in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.

Jacques Derrida quotes: The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

Jacques Derrida quotes: No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.

No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.

Jacques Derrida quotes: There is nothing outside the text

There is nothing outside the text

Jacques Derrida quotes: I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

Jacques Derrida quotes: I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

Jacques Derrida quotes: I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

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 quotes: The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

Jacques Derrida quotes: I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Jacques Derrida quotes: I rightly pass for an atheist.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

Jacques Derrida quotes: There is no simple answer to such a question

There is no simple answer to such a question

Jacques Derrida quotes: Who ever said that one was born just once?

Who ever said that one was born just once?

Jacques Derrida quotes: I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.

I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.

Jacques Derrida quotes: I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

Jacques Derrida quotes: We are all mediators, translators.

We are all mediators, translators.

Jacques Derrida quotes: You always return to the water...

You always return to the water...

Jacques Derrida quotes: Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Jacques Derrida quotes: I cannot respond to the call, the request, the obligation, or even the love of another, without sacrificing the other other, the other others

I cannot respond to the call, the request, the obligation, or even the love of another, without sacrificing the other other, the other others

Jacques Derrida quotes: The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

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 quotes: Beyond the touchline there is nothing.

Beyond the touchline there is nothing.