There Is Nothing Outside The Text

There Is Nothing Outside Of The Text. [fr., Il N'y A Pas De Hors-texte.]

1) Différance Is The Systematic Play Of Differences, Of The Traces Of Differences, Of The Spacing By Means Of Which Elements Are Related To Each Other. This Spacing Is The Simultaneously Active And Passive (the A Of Différance Indicates This Indecision As Concerns Activity And Passivity, That Which Cannot Be Governed By Or Distributed Between The Terms Of This Opposition) Production Of The Intervals Without Which The "full" Terms Would Not Signify, Would Not Function.

Actually, When I Write, There Is A Feeling Of Necessity, Of Something That Is Stronger Than Myself That Demands That I Must Write As I Write.

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.

Surviving - That Is The Other Name Of A Mourning Whose Possibility Is Never To Be Awaited.