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  • As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

    Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.200, Stanford University Press
  • In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

  • 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 (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.115, Stanford University Press
  • The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

  • I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately

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

  • The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

    Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.87, Stanford University Press
  • In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language.

  • I love language as I love life itself!

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