"In Algeria, I had begun to get into……" — Jacques Derrida
"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 it."
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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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More Algeria Quotes
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Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest…
— Omar Bongo
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The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge,…
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria;…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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Algeria is not breaking up.
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.
— Pierre Bourdieu
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I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children…
— Chris Hedges
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In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and…
— Chuck Hagel
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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