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Jacques Derrida Quotes: Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.
         

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.


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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



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

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



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.

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.



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

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.



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

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





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Then I learnt of “white Christmas”, which again I found very peculiar since we always have a white Christmas at home for it never passes by without eating rice. That is our white Christmas.



Honour, in her modern self-confidence, had grown up never having to face actual raw, passionate, drop-down-dead-hostility. She didn't really understand what was going to happen,

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I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all.



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You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.



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God loves you because He has chosen to do so.



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Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.



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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.



The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.




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