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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.
— Jacques Derrida
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Other Quotes by "Jacques Derrida"

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
— Jacques Derrida
Tags: first, problem, media, political
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.
— Jacques Derrida
Tags: anxiety, never, school, today
I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.
— Jacques Derrida
Tags: always, political, you, myself
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
— Jacques Derrida
Tags: therefore, thing, pretend, only
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
— Jacques Derrida
Tags: stage, ready, argument, great
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