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• I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

  Jacques Derrida

  Giving, Temptation, Would Be

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.116, Stanford University Press

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• Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?

  Jacques Derrida

  Philosopher, Scientist, Easier

  "Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994".

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• I love language as I love life itself!

  Jacques Derrida

  Love Life, Language, I Love Life

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• I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

  Jacques Derrida

  Political, Intellectual, Roles

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

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• During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs, it was not at all in order to mark a sort of blank, absence, or disappearance of the image; it was because the code that dominates at once the production of these images, the framing they are made to undergo, the social implications (showing the writer's head framed in front his bookshelves, the whole scenario) seemed to me to be, first of all, terribly boring, but also contrary to what I am trying to write and to work on.

  Jacques Derrida

  Writing, Order, Years

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• Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

  Jacques Derrida

  Territory, Institutions, Certain

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• In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

  Jacques Derrida

  Dream, Philosophy, Writing

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• I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

  Jacques Derrida

  Reading, Kind, Young

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

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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.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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

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• These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

  Jacques Derrida

  Years, Trying, Firsts

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• These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

  Jacques Derrida

  Practice, Personality, Philosopher

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

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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.

  Jacques Derrida

  School, Paris, Sick

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