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
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a… — 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
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“The bricoleur , says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses 'the means at hand,' that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will… — 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
“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
