"A text is not a text unless it……" — Jacques Derrida
"A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception."
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Jacques Derrida
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64 Quotes by Jacques Derrida
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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,…
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Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive…
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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…
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That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something…
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The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that…
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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on…
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to…
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading,…
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be…
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