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Jacques Derrida Quotes: I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict.
         

I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict.


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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.



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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.



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If things were simple, word would have gotten around.



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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.




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