“No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand at all, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language, with this 'relation,' precisely, which is yours.”

Derrida Jacques, Elisabeth Weber (1995), Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994. p. 115

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