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I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.
Jacques Derrida
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Jacques Derrida
Age: 74 †
Born: 1930
Born: July 15
Died: 2004
Died: October 9
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If things were simple, word would have gotten around.
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These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
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I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately
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Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.
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The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.
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We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.
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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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Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.
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Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
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