“The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.” WellsHardSchoolCasesSickEdgesNervousParisBreakdownFrailNervous BreakdownSchool Experience Author:Jacques Derrida
“These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.” KnowsShouldPracticeCasesKnow HowPersonalityCriticsPhilosopherOrganizeCultModeratesObsessive Book:Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994 Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994
“But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.” IfsKnowsWellsDiesSecretCasesDoubtShareEventsChangedSceneClaimsRelationNotionBoundsCodeNo DoubtWhat IfNot AloneContradictoryAccomplicesPosthumous Author:Jacques Derrida
