As its name suggests, this article is an excerption from a larger project. The first three of 13 propositions of a reflection focused on the citation littéraire are presented here. The essay to which this fragment belongs seeks to elucidate the characteristics of the object citation littéraire, its function and scope both as a philosophical problem, as a scriptural resource and its possibilities for the construction of a counter-hegemonic knowledge. The above, on the assumption that the citation ties knowledge with an affective dimension. To achieve the objective set, the investigation uses the proposal of thinkers who have combined their philosophical concerns with those relating to language. In such a way then the proposals of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, and Giorgio Agamben, among others are used here.