"If my desire is possible, it means the……" — Helene Cixous
"If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through."
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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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Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not…
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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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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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