128 Quotes by Jacques Derrida

I love language as I love life itself!

No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.

I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

I absolutely forbade all public photographs of myself. I like photography, I don't have anything against it, but...

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.

That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break.

Circumcision , that's all I've ever talked about.

An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.

Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism , in a certain spirit of Marxism .