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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
French Philosopher
Born: Jul 15, 1930
Died: Oct 8, 2004
Certain Everything Great Language Life You
Related authors: Albert Camus Blaise Pascal Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre Michel de Montaigne Montesquieu Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Simone Weil
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school. Jacques Derrida
Today Anxiety School Threshold Symptoms Physical Cross Never Institution Without Discomfort Still Chest Left Stomach Cannot Teaching
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture. Jacques Derrida
Culture Everything Way Arranged
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner. Jacques Derrida
Pure Believe Think Sign Writes Idioms Irreplaceable Manner Speaks Naturally Whoever Desire
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
Life Reading Young Kind Bad Some Poetry Journals Also Wrote Withdrew Led North African Even Published
My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. Jacques Derrida
Too Much Believe Too Visible Alive Claim Echoes Nevertheless Name Most Am Opponents Texts Which Inaccessible Little Much Resolute
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. Jacques Derrida
Me Try First Nothing Were Years Handed Ordeal
Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. Jacques Derrida
Me Recognize Could Longer Institution Readers Territory Certain
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. Jacques Derrida
Difficult Too Would Would-Be Temptation Give Never Sake Just Being Ridiculous
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. Jacques Derrida
Language Algeria Philosophy Dream Dreamed Had Governed Were Begun Get Models Literature Certain
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Jacques Derrida
Time Experience Nervous Edge Sick Frail Nervous Breakdown Case Paris Put Well Up Very Any Breakdown Hard

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