"I speak only one language, and it is…" — Jacques Derrida

"I speak only one language, and it is not my own."

— Jacques Derrida

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64 Quotes by Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Beyond the touchline there is nothing.
There is nothing outside the text
A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance,…
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive…
Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.
The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or…
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something…
The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that…
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on…
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to…
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading,…
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be…

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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