“Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what has always been conceived and signified under that name—or that which, not merely escaping literature, implacably destroys it?… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For what is put into question is precisely the quest for a rightful beginning, an absolute point of departure, a principal responsibility.… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact, to recognize;… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
“... and in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.” — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
“Here again, the difference between the effective and the virtual, between mourning and its possibility, seems fragile and porous. The anguished apprehension of mourning… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
“The wound can have (should only have) just one proper name. I recognize that I love — you — by this: you leave in… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
“It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of terrain.” It also goes without saying… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
