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All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say that they are at least false. As you know, one of the principal things at stake in what is called in my texts 'deconstruction', is precisely the delimiting of ontology and above all of the third-person present indicative: S is P.

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