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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.

  Jacques Derrida

  Identity, Looks, Cry

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.340, Stanford University Press

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• The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.

  Jacques Derrida

  Writing, Ambition, Mean

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• Beauty only happens once.

  Jacques Derrida

  Beauty, Happens

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• A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.

  Jacques Derrida

  Law, Games, Forever

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• There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of the past, as well as singular works of our own time. Deconstruction is also a certain thinking about tradition and context. Mark Taylor evokes this with great clarity in the course of a remarkable introduction. He reconstitutes a set of premises without which no deconstruction could have seen the light of day.

  Jacques Derrida

  Memories, Philosophy, Reading

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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

  Jacques Derrida

  Desire, Archives, Return

  Jacques Derrida (1998). “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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• If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to Heidegger, they try to consider their own lives as something marginal or accidental. What was essential was their teaching and their thinking. Biography is something empirical and outside, and is considered an accident that isn't necessarily or essentially linked to the philosophical activity or system.

  Jacques Derrida

  Teaching, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Who ever said that one was born just once?

  Jacques Derrida

  Born, Said

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.339, Stanford University Press

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• The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.

  Jacques Derrida

  Attitude, Cutting, Medical

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.239, Stanford University Press

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• What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Objectivity, Conventions

  "Limited Inc". Book by Jacques Derrida, 1977.

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• Beyond the touchline there is nothing.

  Jacques Derrida

  Football

  "Want to understand politics in the last 25 years? Look at football" by Shirsho Dasgupta, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2017.

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• The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

  Jacques Derrida

  Writing, Language, Traditional

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• 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

  Winning, Looks, Surprise

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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.

  Jacques Derrida

  Loving Someone, Expectations, Heidegger

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• Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

  Jacques Derrida

  Names, Mourning, Possibility

  Jacques Derrida (2003). “The Work of Mourning”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

  Jacques Derrida

  Cinema, Ghost, Plus

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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.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Perception, Desire

  Jacques Derrida (1978). “Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction”, p.9, U of Nebraska Press

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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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  Real, Tension, Dies

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• I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

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  Thinking, Traps, Acceptable

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.115, Stanford University Press

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• I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the positive, or positions, and affirmations. I think that deconstruction is affirmative rather than questioning: this affirmation goes through some radical questioning, but it is not questioning in the field of analysis.

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  Thinking, Analysis, Fields

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• All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say that they are at least false. As you know, one of the principal things at stake in what is called in my texts 'deconstruction', is precisely the delimiting of ontology and above all of the third-person present indicative: S is P.

  Jacques Derrida

  Science, Missing, Ontology

  Jacques Derrida (2010). “Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography”, p.1977, Stanford University Press

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• I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Book, Fighting

  Jacques Derrida (2005). “Paper Machine”, p.28, Stanford University Press

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• Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism.

  Jacques Derrida

  Eye, Spirit, Tradition

  "Moscou aller-retour" by Jacques Derrida, Saint Etienne: De l'Aube, 1995.

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• I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

  Jacques Derrida

  Roles, Argument, Stage

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.342, Stanford University Press

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• No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.

  Jacques Derrida

  Writing, Secret, Facts

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