What Cannot Be Said Above All Must

I Say Things That Contradict Each Other, That Are In Real Tension With Each Other, That Compose Me, That Make Me Live, And That Will Make Me Die.

All Sentences Of The Type 'deconstruction Is X' Or 'deconstruction Is Not X', A Priori Miss The Point, Which Is To Say That They Are At Least False. As You Know, One Of The Principal Things At Stake In What Is Called In My Texts 'deconstruction', Is Precisely The Delimiting Of Ontology And Above All Of The Third-person Present Indicative: S Is P.

Even If We're In A State Of Hopelessness, A Sense Of Expectation Is An Integral Part Of Our Relationship To Time. Hopelessness Is Possible Only Because We Do Hope That Some Good, Loving Someone Could Come. If That's What Heidegger Meant, Then I Agree With Him.

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.

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