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

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language.

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.