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Jacques Derrida

"A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer tolerates the opposition of activity and passivity, nor that of cause and effect, or of indetermination and determination, etc., such that in designating consciousness as an effect or a determination, one continues - for strategic reasons that can be more or less lucidly deliberated and systematically calculated - to operate according to the lexicon of that which one is de-limiting."

-- Jacques Derrida

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“Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Icarus Girl”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing
“There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.”
“We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them...”
“Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.”
“I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.”
“I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.”
“Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.”
“If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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