"Decisive moment: the one when you will be……" — Helene Cixous
"Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth."
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Helene Cixous
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26 Quotes by Helene Cixous
Helene Cixous has 26 quotes on this site.
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Everything ends with flowers.
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Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations…
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I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and…
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Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven…
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She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance…
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Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.
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We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.
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What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want…
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Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening…
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Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
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You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and…
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Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles…
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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