The Gift of Death and Literature in Secret Quotes

“Everyone must assume their own death, that is to say, the one thing in the world that no one else can either give or take: therein resides freedom and responsibility.”
― Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret

“Religion is responsibility or it is nothing at all. Its history derives its sense entirely from the idea of a passage to responsibility.”
― Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret