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Only Quotes by Jacques Derrida
- The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility…
- Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try…
- Beauty only happens once.
- An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens…
- To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
- The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
- I speak only one language, and it is not my own.
- The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist…
- Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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