"If things were simple, word would have gotten around."
― Jacques Derrida
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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."
― Jacques Derrida |
"I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap."
― Jacques Derrida |
"Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death."
― Jacques Derrida |
"Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word."
― Jacques Derrida |
"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
― Jacques Derrida
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"I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe."
― Jacques Derrida |
"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." ― Jacques Derrida |
"I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect." ― Jacques Derrida |
"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."
― Jacques Derrida
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"I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner."
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"The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning." ― Jacques Derrida |
"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."
― Jacques Derrida |
"If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction." ― Jacques Derrida |
"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."
― Jacques Derrida
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"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."
― Jacques Derrida
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