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“But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relationand yours tooto the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a st...”
“And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it wont be of any help to you. Even my admiss...”
“A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and...”
“Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put between quotation marks; thereby it can break with e...”
“Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the s...”
“It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a change of terrain. It also goes without saying that the choice between these two forms of deconstruction cannot...”
“Let us being again. To take some examples: why should literature still designate that which already breaks away from literatureaway from what has always been conceived and signified under that name...”
“For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For what is put into question is precisely the quest for a rightful beginning, an absolute point of d...”
“Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three essays whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact, to recognize; whose continuity and underlying laws could now be poi...”
“humanity suffers terribly from the demons it has created over lengths of time. we learn from nothing that we do. we create religions, heritage, race, traditions, then they all in turn become our st...”
“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an eternal charm, even though the social conditions which produced it had long passed; but how do we know that it will remain ete...”
“To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to die in segregation and not have one single person who loved, mentored or guided me convey that the...”
“Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what has always been conceived and signified under that n...”
“Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact, to recognize; whose continuity and underlying laws could now be p...”
