Heterogeneity Quotes by Jacques Derrida

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• 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…
• The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will…
• I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the…
• I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in…
• I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also…
• I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

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