Ghosts always pass quickly, with the infinite speed of a furtive apparition, in an instant without duration, presence without present of a present which, coming back, only haunts.

Ghosts always pass quickly, with the infinite speed of a furtive apparition, in an instant without duration, presence without present of a present which, coming back, only haunts. — Jacques Derrida, Memoires for Paul de Man (Columbia University Press, 1986) 64. (via chipclayton)