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Jacques Derrida

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Total quotes: 3

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Jacques Derrida

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Birthday: July 15, 1930

Birthplace: El Biar, French Algeria

Death: October 9, 2004

Educated At: University Of Paris, École Normale Supérieure, Harvard University

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: France

Occupations: University Teacher, Literary Critic, Philosopher, Writer

Total quotes: 3

“From where, from whom, this mourning, or these tears of joy — I do not know; one must believe.”

— Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind

Tagged: Alien, Mourning

“There is no passion without secrecy, this secrecy where everything is nonetheless said.”

— Jacques Derrida, The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida

Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy, Passion, Against Transparency, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences

“To say that one always interweaves roots endlessly, bending them to send down roots among the roots, to pass through the same points again, to redouble old adherences, to circulate among their differences, to coil around themselves or to be enveloped one in the other, to say that a text is never anything but a system of roots, is undoubtedly to contradict at once the concept of system and the pattern of the root.”

— Jacques Derrida, To contradict at once the concept of system and the pattern of the root.

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