I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship. Helene Cixous More Quotes by Helene Cixous More Quotes From Helene Cixous When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we will be calls us to the unflagging, intoxicating, unappeasable search for love. In one another we will never be lacking. Helene Cixous searching-for-love exclusion writing If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through. Helene Cixous ifs desire mean Other-Love is writing's first name. Helene Cixous names writing love-is Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment. Helene Cixous cannibal wake-up love-is Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them. Helene Cixous feminism language ideas Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing. Helene Cixous meditation writing needs Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. Helene Cixous passages manage enough I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted. Helene Cixous sickness worst sick in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked Helene Cixous synagogue jail heart It is said that life and death are under the power of language. Helene Cixous life-and-death language said What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I want to find the root of needing to eat. And taste it: work of sweat / sleep. Helene Cixous sweat roots sleep