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Jacques Derrida
Age: 74 †
Born: 1930
Born: July 15
Died: 2004
Died: October 9
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I rightly pass for an atheist.
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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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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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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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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
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I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
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Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.
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Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time. Hopelessness is possible only because we do hope that some good, loving someone could come. If that's what Heidegger meant, then I agree with him.
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I love language as I love life itself!
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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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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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I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.
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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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I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).
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Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.
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In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.
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I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.
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These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
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Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.
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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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