I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the… — 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 Image
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 Image
“... and in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.” — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
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 Image
