Differences Quote by Luce Irigaray

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“Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.”

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Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every…

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Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

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Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

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