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Inspirational Quotes by Jacques Derrida
- Beyond the touchline there is nothing.
- There is nothing outside the text
- Who ever said that one was born just once?
- No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.
- If things were simple, word would have gotten around.
- One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.
- Beauty only happens once.
- To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
- Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
- I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
- As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
- What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.
- I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.
- The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
- I rightly pass for an atheist.
- I speak only one language, and it is not my own.
- We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon…
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