Jacques Derrida

"There is nothing outside of the text."

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

"Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself."

"I have always had trouble with the very idea of presence."

"The trace is not a presence but the simulacrum of a presence that dislocates itself."