Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.
- Helene Cixous
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And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she...
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