What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

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.

The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.