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1 " I speak only one language, and it is not my own. "
― Jacques Derrida , Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin
2 " One can, of course, speak several languages. There are speakers who are competent in more than one language. Some even write several languages at a time (prostheses, grafts, translation, transposition) . But do they not always do it with a view to an absolute idiom? and in the promise of a still unheard-of language? of a sole poem previously inaudible? "