25 Quotes by Julia Kristeva

Love is the time and space where “I” give myself the right to be extraordinary.

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it – on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.

Significance is inherent in the human body.

Or should one recognize that one becomes a foreigner in another country because one is already a foreigner from within?

Since he has nothing, since he is nothing, he can sacrifice everything.

Music, rhythm, rigadoon, without end, for no reason.

To be deprived of parents – is that where freedom starts?

He is a foreigner, he is from nowhere, from everywhere, citizen of the world, cosmopolitan. Do not send him back to his origins.