These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
Jacques Derrida

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
Jacques Derrida

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

We are all mediators, translators.
Jacques Derrida

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.
Jacques Derrida

Who ever said that one was born just once?
Jacques Derrida

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
Jacques Derrida