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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.

  Jacques Derrida

  Caring, Names, Looks

  Jacques Derrida (2008). “The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

  Jacques Derrida

  School, Long, Sickness

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.343, Stanford University Press

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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.

  Jacques Derrida

  Language, Speak, Mathematician

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

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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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• The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

  Jacques Derrida

  Political Language, Media, Doe

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.87, Stanford University Press

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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.

  Jacques Derrida

  Solitude, Speak, Given

  Jacques Derrida (1996). “The Gift of Death”, p.57, University of Chicago Press

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• In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language.

  Jacques Derrida

  Differences, Inventory, Systematic

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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

  Jacques Derrida

  Writing, Eye, Self

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• But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible.

  Jacques Derrida

  Speech, Consciousness, Silent

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• As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit that every finite discourse is bound by a certain bricolage and that the engineer and the scientist are also species of bricoleurs , then the very idea of bricolage is menaced and the difference in which it took on its meaning breaks down.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Ideas, Differences

  Jacques Derrida (1978). “Writing and Difference”, p.285, University of Chicago Press

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• A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer tolerates the opposition of activity and passivity, nor that of cause and effect, or of indetermination and determination, etc., such that in designating consciousness as an effect or a determination, one continues - for strategic reasons that can be more or less lucidly deliberated and systematically calculated - to operate according to the lexicon of that which one is de-limiting.

  Jacques Derrida

  Determination, Lexicon, Etc

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• The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

  Jacques Derrida

  Circles, Return, Chance

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

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• But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.

  Jacques Derrida

  What If, Doubt, Secret

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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.

  Jacques Derrida

  Insecurity, Eccentric, Strange

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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.

  Jacques Derrida

  Heart, Secret, Jew

  Geoffrey Bennington, Jacques Derrida (1999). “Jacques Derrida”, p.180, University of Chicago Press

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• An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.

  Jacques Derrida

  Self, Drawing, Portraits

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• Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

  Jacques Derrida

  Mean, Survival, Term

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• I rightly pass for an atheist.

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  Atheist

  Jacques Derrida, John D. Caputo (1997). “Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida”, p.20, Fordham Univ Press

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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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  Children, Events, Unveiling

  Jacques Derrida (2009). “The Animal That Therefore I Am”, p.28, Fordham Univ Press

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• The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos ). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always.

  Jacques Derrida

  Men, Limits, Infinity

  Jacques Derrida (1982). “Margins of Philosophy”, p.123, University of Chicago Press

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• My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Echoes, Names

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.410, Stanford University Press

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• 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

  Poetic, Methodology, Discourse

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.200, Stanford University Press

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• Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

  Jacques Derrida

  Teaching, School, Anxiety

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• Circumcision , that's all I've ever talked about.

  Jacques Derrida

  Circumcision

  Jacques Derrida, Elisabeth Weber (2004). “Questioning Judaism”, p.39, Stanford University Press

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• 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

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Numbers

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