Strangers to Ourselves Quotes

“Or should one recognize that one becomes a foreigner in another country because one is already a foreigner from within?”
― Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves

“To be deprived of parents - is that where freedom starts?”
― Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves

“He is a foreigner, he is from nowhere, from everywhere, citizen of the world, cosmopolitan. Do not send him back to his origins.”
― Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves

“Since he has nothing, since he is nothing, he can sacrifice everything.”
― Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves

“And nevertheless, no, I have nothing to say to them, to my parents. Nothing. Nothing and everything, as always. If I tried – out of boldness, through luck, or in distress – to share with them some of the violence that causes me to be so totally on my own, they would not know where I am, who I am, what it is, in others, that rubs me the wrong way.”
― Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves

“To be of no account to others. No one listens to you.”
― Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves

“The foreigner’s friends, aside from bleeding hearts who feel obliged to do good, could only be those who feel foreign to themselves.”
― Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves

“But by the way, who is the murderer? The one who does not know my relatives, or myself, as I erect my new life like a fragile mausoleum where their shadowy figure is integrated, like a corpse, at the source of my wandering?”
― Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves

“One who is happy being a cosmopolitan shelters a shattered origin in the night of his wandering.”
― julia kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves