“We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.” SpeakGivenSolitudeAbsolutes Book:The Gift of Death Source: The Gift of Death
“Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.” MeanHas BeensDiesAcceptingOughtAbsolutesPhilosophicalOneselfPhilosopherRedemptionAcknowledgeOutcomesMortalityResurrectionPlatoPositive Outcome Author:Jacques Derrida
“It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement” DesireReturnAbsolutesNostalgiaNostalgicRepetitiveHomesicknessArchivesCommencementIrrepressible Book:Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression Source: Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
