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• It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a…
• Beyond the touchline there is nothing.
• There is nothing outside the text
• A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system…
• Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection,…
• Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.
• The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts…
• That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has…

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