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Jacques Derrida Quotes: As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
         

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.


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I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.

I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.



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



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The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.



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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 the question of ghosts.



If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.



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

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



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




The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.



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





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Information and complexity go hand in hand.



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Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.



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Do you know how beautiful you are?' I shook my head 'I'm not. But you make me fell like I am.' I wanted to be beautiful. To him. For him. I didn't care how anybody else saw me. Only Ethan.



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The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.



Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.

Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.



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I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.



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A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.



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All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.

All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.



For love is heaven and heaven is love.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.




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