Derrida, Jacques

"The archive forgets even as it remembers; absence haunts presence."

"Language is a gift we never chose, yet we are responsible for it."

"The ethical moment lies in choosing when no rule can decide."

"Deconstruction shows how meaning undermines itself."

"Love is the experience of the other's singularity and irreplaceability."

"The law is just only insofar as it respects what exceeds it."

"We are spectral to ourselves; identity is never self-present."

"The margin speaks to the center; meaning circulates without rest."

"To be kind is to accept responsibility for what we do not control."

"The future remains open because it cannot be reduced to knowledge."

"Writing inaugurates time; it severs presence from itself."

"The other is not reducible to my categories of understanding."

"Friendship involves a fidelity to the singular otherness of the friend."

"The gift must be given without expectation of return."

"Power is most effective when it appears as necessity or nature."

"Freedom is always freedom for others, or it is not freedom."

"The text resists the reader's attempt to master it."

"Death is what individualizes us and makes us singular."

"We inherit responsibility for what preceded us and what comes after."

"The trace is what persists of what is no longer present."

"The other is not something to be known, but rather something to be negotiated with."

"Writing is the operation most proper to philosophy."

"There is no outside-text, no escape from the textual condition we inhabit."

"Deconstruction is not destruction, it is rather an analysis of the structure of meaning."

"Justice is impossible, yet we must still pursue it."

"The trace is always already effaced, hidden within what presents itself."

"We must think the unthinkable, say the unsayable."

"Hospitality begins where we allow ourselves to be questioned by the other."

"All translation is transformation, never pure transfer."

"The archive is not just a place of memory, but a structure that determines what can be remembered."