Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.
Jacques Derrida

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

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
Jacques Derrida

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
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

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.
Jacques Derrida

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.
Jacques Derrida