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There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of the past, as well as singular works of our own time. Deconstruction is also a certain thinking about tradition and context. Mark Taylor evokes this with great clarity in the course of a remarkable introduction. He reconstitutes a set of premises without which no deconstruction could have seen the light of day.

Jacques Derrida's Popular Quotes

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

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

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

- Jacques Derrida

One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.

- Jacques Derrida

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

- Jacques Derrida

There is nothing outside the text

- Jacques Derrida

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

- Jacques Derrida

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

- Jacques Derrida