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We are all mediators, translators.

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Jacques Derrida
Age: 74 †
Born: 1930
Born: July 15
Died: 2004
Died: October 9
Literary Critic
Philosopher
University Teacher
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Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.
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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
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Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
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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 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’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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Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.
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The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
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I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict.
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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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Beyond the touchline there is nothing.
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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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I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.
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I love language as I love life itself!
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If things were simple, word would have gotten around.
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It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement
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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 boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
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I rightly pass for an atheist.
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