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.
There is nothing outside of the text. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.] - Jacques Derrida
There is nothing outside of the text. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.]
- Jacques Derrida
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. - Jacques Derrida
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
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 th… - Jacques Derrida
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 th…
One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says. - Jacques Derrida
One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets. - Jacques Derrida
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything - Jacques Derrida
If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything
There is nothing outside the text - Jacques Derrida
There is nothing outside the text
I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. - Jacques Derrida
I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.
If things were simple, word would have gotten around. - Jacques Derrida
If things were simple, word would have gotten around.
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