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Language Quotes by Jacques Derrida
- I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that…
- No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but…
- The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
- As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
- In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed…
- The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
- I speak only one language, and it is not my own.
- As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen.
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