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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
Jacques Derrida

Biography

Author Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: French
Born: July 15, 1930
Died: October 8, 2004

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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
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Who ever said that one was born just once?
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I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
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Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
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We are all mediators, translators.
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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.
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