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Amy Kofman: Have you read all the books in here?
Derrida: No, only four of them. But I read those very, very carefully.

— Jacques Derrida

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I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.

Circumcision, that’s all I’ve ever talked about.

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

Writing and Difference (1978)

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

Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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