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Jacques Derrida
French
Philosopher
Born:
Jul 15
,
1930
Died:
Oct 8
,
2004
Certain
Everything
Great
Language
Life
You
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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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