The disciple must break the glass, or better the mirror, th… - Jacques Derrida

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The disciple must break the glass, or better the mirror, the reflection, his infinite speculation on the master. And start to speak.

Jacques Derrida

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About Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (15 July 1930 – 8 October 2004) was a French Algerian philosopher who introduced the practice of "deconstruction".

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Alternative Names: Jackie Derrida • Jackie Elie Derrida • Jackie Élie Derrida • J. Derrida

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Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand at all, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language, with this 'relation,' precisely, which is yours.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters', without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

The disciple must break the glass, or better the mirror, the reflection, his infinite speculation on the master. And start to speak. - Jacques Derrida

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