Jacques Derrida - Necessity Quotes

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I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

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When I say that this phase is necessary, the word phase is perhaps not the most rigorous one. It is not a question of a chronological phase, a given moment, or a page that one day simply will be turned, in order to go on to other things. The necessity of this phase is structural; it is the necessity of an interminable analysis: the hierarchy of dual oppositions always reestablishes itself. Unlike those authors whose death does not await their demise, the time for overturning is never a dead letter.

Jacques Derrida