When I write, all those that we don’t know we can be write themselves from me, without exclusion, without prediction, and everything that we will be calls us to the tireless, intoxicating, tender-costly-search for love. We will never lack ourselves.
Helene CixousAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: algerian
- Born: June 5, 1937
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