Jacques Derrida

To love is to give what one does not have to someone who does not want it.

The book is a tomb.

The present is always already past.

To be is to be written.

The question of the other is always a question of alterity.

The university is a space of unconditional hospitality.

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

The future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger.

Deconstruction is justice.

I am at war with myself.

The animal looks at us, and we are naked before it.

Every discourse is a hostage to its own rhetoric.

The ghost is not simply a dead or missing person, but a social figure.

The archive is a place of power.

The meaning of meaning is infinite différance.

Deconstruction is not a demolition, but a careful dismantling to understand how a text or concept is put together.

The sign is always a sign of the supplement.

Writing is the name of these two things at once: the movement of signifying production and the undoing of presence.

The trace is not a presence but a simulacrum of a presence that dislocates, displaces, and refers beyond itself.

There is no pure origin.