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Page 2 of 2Jacques Derrida
July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004
Nationality: French
Category: Philosopher
Subcategory: French Philosopher
|  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. | | These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. | | If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. | | My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. | | I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior. | | I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. | | I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles. |
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