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Jacques Derrida Quotes: 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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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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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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