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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

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too. — Walter Kirn

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

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

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

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

Beauty only happens once. — Jacques Derrida

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

Derrida is not an excuse — Nathan "N.R." Gaddis

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

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

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

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

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

And cranky old Jacques Derrida notwithstanding, we do love our dichotomies. — Thomas King

I have forgotten my umbrella. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets. — 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 believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect. — Jacques Derrida

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

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

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts. — Jacques Derrida

There is nothing outside the text — Jacques Derrida

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

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

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

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there. — Harry Frankfurt

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

I love language as I love life itself! — 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

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

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. — Hanif Kureishi

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

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

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

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

Beyond the touchline there is nothing. — Jacques Derrida

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

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

I rightly pass for an atheist. — Jacques Derrida

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes. — Terry Eagleton

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

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

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

The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean. — Timothy Morton

Was it John Searle who called Jacques Derrida the sort of philosopher who gives bullshit a bad name? — David Markson

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

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

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

You always return to the water... — Jacques Derrida

We are all mediators, translators. — Jacques Derrida

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

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

There is no simple answer to such a question — Jacques Derrida

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