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I love language as I love life itself!

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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There is nothing outside of the text. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.]
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I rightly pass for an atheist.
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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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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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