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Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.

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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

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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

Born: July 15, 1930
Died: October 9, 2004 (aged 74)
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