"Actually, when I write, there is a feeling……" — Jacques Derrida
"Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write."
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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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I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of…
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always…
— Roger Babson
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Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of…
— Lord Acton
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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and…
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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the…
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in…
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Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only…
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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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