Everything Is Lost Except Words

Everything Is Lost Except Words
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Everything is lost except words. This is a child's experience: words are our doors to all other worlds. At a certain moment for the person who has lost everything, whether that is, moreover, a being or country, language becomes the country. One enters the country of languages. - Hélène Cixous, From the Scene of the Unconscious to the Scene of History: Pathway Of Writing