Hélène Cixous
@Helene_Cixous
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Writer & Professor of English Literature. A prolific writer best known for her contributions to feminist theory.
Oran, Algeria
Joined July 2013
There are so many kinds of reality, and so many secret openings in the walls we think are mute.
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People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.
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“I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life.”
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I am the center and the limit of his kingdom, the skin of his existence, by which he breathes and protects himself.
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I must find the door into the soul that leads suddenly to a secret life.
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You leave me no time to despair, to hope, to despair of despair. You give me only the time--lightning flash--to desire.
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I have loved, immensely, at great cost to life, soul, and inspiration. - Promethea
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I have so little being and so much weight. What would I do with the sun today, I who sparkle with pain?
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At the intersection of our tongues there came to us a third body, at a place where there is no law.
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1.1. the prolongation of my consciousness, the passage way of my hope.
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1. I know that one much better than my own body, that one is the form of my organism, the concrete, the world gathered together,
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"All the mysteries are there: I see my bones through your blood, I am in front and yet I am inside, I am the gaze and its abolition."
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1.2. with plenty of those somewhat dubious qualities that give great souls their style. I have always loved loving a lot.
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1.1. I have loved very hard without asking questions and without excuses, gallantly, unselfishly, devotedly, etc...
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--beloved body, of life in its remoteness, to saturate the distance with desire; in order to keep it from reading you.
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Writing to touch with letters, with lips, with breath, to caress with the tongue, to lick with the soul, to taste the blood of the--
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What you can't have, what you can't touch, smell, caress, you should at least try to see. I want to see: everything. #quote
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Writing: a way of leaving no space for death, of pushing back forgetfulness, of never letting oneself be surprised by the abyss. #quote
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Because of my fear I reinforced love, I alerted all the forces of life, I armed love, with soul and words, to keep death from winning.
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