“… It makes me cry, I want to talk about something I am not sure I can talk about, I want to talk about the inside from the inside, I do not want to leave it
I am so happy in the silky damp dark of the labyrinth and there is no thread”

— Hélène Cixous

Source: The Book of Promethea

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French philosopher and writer 1937

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