A Heartbreaking Paradox

“A heartbreaking paradox: if only I can finish my work so that it will live. Yet if it is finished, completed, a part of me but departed from me, I lost it alive, living but separate; and if it does not leave me, it is incomplete, insufficient, and half-dead that I keep it.”
― Hélène Cixou, La Jeune Nee, (The Newly Born Woman)