Jacques Derrida

The 'we' is always already divided.

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

No, only four of them. But I read those very, very carefully.

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

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

What can look at itself is not one; and the law of the addition of the origin to its representation, or the thing to its image, is that one plus one makes at least three.

The lie is the future, one may venture to say [...]. To tell the truth is, on the contrary, to say what is or what will have been and it would instead prefer the past.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

There is nothing outside of the text.

The end is in the beginning.

The Other is always already within the Same.

The book is always already a palimpsest.

The meaning is always already deferred.

The voice is always already written.

The subject is always already a trace.