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Jacques Derrida Quotes


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.

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

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

We are all mediators, translators.

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.

Who ever said that one was born just once?

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?