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Hélène Cixous
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“It is said that life and death are under the power of language.”
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“I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.”
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“Other-Love is writing's first name.”
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“Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.”
Hélène Cixous, French philsopher, writer, poet, educator, feminist, playwright, critic, rhetorician
(1937)