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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…
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Beyond the touchline there is nothing.
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There is nothing outside the text
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A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system…
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Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection,…
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Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.
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The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts…
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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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There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.
— Seneca the Elder
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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were…
— Leon Edel
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
— Charles Lamb
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The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts…
— Jacques Derrida
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We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me…
— Albert Camus
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Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.
— Murasaki Shikibu
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London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws…
— Paul Verlaine
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