22 Insightful Quotes By Jacques Derrida For The Sage

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

I

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What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

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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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I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

I

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I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

I

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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

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Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

Living

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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.

Believe I

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If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction

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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.

Death

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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.

Living

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We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.

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Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

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I rightly pass for an atheist.

I

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

Never

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How can I say 'I love you', if I know the love is you .. the word 'love' either as a verb or a noun would be destroyed in front of you

You Love I

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You always return to the water...

You

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I cannot respond to the call, the request, the obligation, or even the love of another, without sacrificing the other other, the other others

Love I

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The lie is the future, one may venture to say [...]. To tell the truth is, on the contrary, to say what is or what will have been and it would instead prefer the past.

Future Past Will

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... and in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.

Death

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The Ethical can therefore end up making us irresponsible.

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There is no simple answer to such a question

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