Jacques Derrida

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

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What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written

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

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I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe

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The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds