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It is said that life and death are under the power of language.


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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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We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.



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Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.



We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.



The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed

The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed



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Everything ends with flowers.



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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.



Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.



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This page presents the quote "It is said that life and death are under the power of language.". Author of this quote is Helene Cixous. This quote is about power of language, said, language, life and death,.