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I rightly pass for an atheist.
Jacques Derrida
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Jacques Derrida
Age: 74 †
Born: 1930
Born: July 15
Died: 2004
Died: October 9
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Beyond the touchline there is nothing.
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I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.
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There is nothing outside of the text. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.]
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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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The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
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I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
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