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I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

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Jacques Derrida

One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.

Knowing, Says, Seeing, Speak, Speaks
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What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions. . . and yet which still remains a context.

Believe, Conventions, Given, Imposes, Objectivity

If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to Heidegger, they try to consider their own lives as something marginal or accidental. What was essential was their teaching and their thinking. Biography is something empirical and outside, and is considered an accident that isn't necessarily or essentially linked to the philosophical activity or system.

Aristotle, Essential, Notice, Philosophical, Teaching, Thinking

I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.

Contradict, Dies, Live, Real, Say, Tension

Who ever said that one was born just once?

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Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.

Announces, Caught, Cries, Cry, Identity, Looks
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