Quotes by : Jacques Derrida

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition....

Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as....

In general, I try and distinguish between what one calls the Future and “l’avenir” [the ‘to come].....

Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but....

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through....

Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already....

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the....

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.....