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  • #1
    Simone Weil
    “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
    Simone Weil

  • #2
    Joseph McElroy
    “The Void is the nothing you may assume about your future.”
    Joseph McElroy, Women and Men

  • #3
    Theodor W. Adorno
    “The only responsible course is to deny oneself the ideological misuse of one’s own existence, and for the rest to conduct oneself in private as modestly, unobtrusively and unpretentiously as is required, no longer by good upbringing, but by the shame of still having air to breathe, in hell.”
    Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

  • #4
    “It speaks to the very nature of our domestication that we only choose resistance so long as it feels like something we can win.”
    Serafinski, Blessed is the Flame: An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism

  • #5
    “By creating conditions that demanded brute self-interest, where groups and individuals were pitted against each other for scraps of privilege, where the pain of isolation was preferable to the weight of empathy, the Nazis were able to preclude the capacity for solidarity, and thus the capacity for much resistance.”
    Serafinski, Blessed is the Flame: An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism

  • #6
    Susan Sontag
    “I am not myself with people [...] but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too.”
    Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

  • #7
    Gilles Deleuze
    “Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things”
    Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

  • #8
    Gilles Deleuze
    “This is how it should be done: lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an advantageous place on it, find potential movements of deterritorialization, possible lines of flight, experience them, produce flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of intensities segment by segment, have a small plot of new land at all times.”
    Deleuze and Guattari

  • #9
    Gilles Deleuze
    “Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power. The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy that saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for turning stupidity into something shameful.”
    Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

  • #10
    Gilles Deleuze
    “Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.”
    Gilles Deleuze

  • #11
    Gilles Deleuze
    “The death of a social machine has never been heralded by a disharmony or a dysfunction; on the contrary, social machines make a habit of feeding on the contradictions they give rise to, on the crises they provoke, on the anxieties they engender, and on the infernal operations they regenerate. Capitalism has learned this, and has ceased doubting itself, while even socialists have abandoned belief in the possibility of capitalism's natural death by attrition. No one has ever died from contradictions. And the more it breaks down, the more it schizophrenizes, the better it works, the American way.”
    Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

  • #12
    Gilles Deleuze
    “Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of beliefs that only the very faithful could adhere to, i.e., those who believe in a security that amounts to being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals”
    Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

  • #13
    Jean-François Lyotard
    “A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of producing proof require additional expenditures. No money, no proof - and that means no verification of statements and no truth. The games of scientific language become the games of the rich, in which whoever is the wealthiest has the best chance of being right. An equation between wealth, efficiency, and truth is thus established.”
    Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

  • #14
    Jean-François Lyotard
    “Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating useful regularities and seeks truth, it is obliged to legitimate the rules of its own game.”
    Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

  • #15
    Gilles Deleuze
    “The theory of thought is like painting: it needs that revolution which took art from representation to abstraction. This is the aim of a theory of thought without image.”
    Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition

  • #16
    Gilles Deleuze
    “What counts is the question, of what is a body capable? And thereby he sets out one of the most fundamental questions in his whole philosophy (before him there had been Hobbes and others) by saying that the only question is that we don't even know [savons] what a body is capable of, we prattle on about the soul and the mind and we don't know what a body can do.”
    Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza

  • #17
    Gilles Deleuze
    “The great discovery of psychoanalysis was that of the production of desire, of the production of the unconscious. But once Oedipus entered the picture, the discovery was soon buried beneath the new brand of idealism: a classical theater was substituted for the unconscious as a factory: representation was substituted for the units of production of the unconscious; and an unconscious that was capable of nothing but expressing itself – in myth, tragedy, dreams – was substituted for the productive unconscious”
    Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

  • #18
    Gilles Deleuze
    “Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing (jaillissante) or exhausted (épuisée) life. But an artist cannot be content with an exhausted life, nor with a personal life. One does not write with one's ego, one's memory, and one's illnesses. In the act of writing there's an attempt to make life something more personal, to liberate life from what imprisons it...There is a profound link between signs, the event, life, and vitalism. It is the power of nonorganic life, that which can be found in a line of a drawing, a line of writing, a line of music. It is organisms that die, not life. There is no work of art that does not indicate an opening for life, a path between the cracks. Everything I have written has been vitalistic, at least I hope so, and constitutes a theory of signs and the event.”
    Gilles Deleuze

  • #19
    Gilles Deleuze
    “The link between man and the world is broken. Henceforth, this link must become an object of belief: it is the impossible which can only be restored within a faith. Belief is no longer addressed to a different or transformed world. Man is in the world as if in a pure optical and sound situation. The reaction of which man has been dispossessed can be replaced only by belief. Only belief in the world can reconnect man to what he sees and hears. The cinema must film, not the world, but belief in this world, our only link.”
    Gilles Deleuze, The Time-Image

  • #20
    Gilles Deleuze
    “We must believe in the body, but as in the germ of life, the seed which splits open the paving stones, which has been preserved and lives on in the holy shroud or the mummy's bandages, and which bears witness to life, in this world as it is. We need an ethic or a faith, which makes fools laugh; it is not a need to believe in something else, but a need to believe in this world, of which fools are a part.”
    Gilles Deleuze, The Time-Image

  • #21
    John Barth
    “I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me’s no joke.”
    John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse

  • #22
    John Barth
    “The necessity for an observer makes perfect observation impossible.”
    John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse

  • #23
    John Barth
    “The wisdom to recognize and halt follows the know-how to pollute past rescue. The treaty’s signed, but the cancer ticks in your bones. Until I’d murdered my father and fornicated my mother I wasn’t wise enough to see I was Oedipus.”
    John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse

  • #24
    John Barth
    “…beg Love’s pardon for your want of faith. Helen chose you without reason because she loves you without cause; embrace her without question and watch your weather change.”
    John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse

  • #25
    Max Stirner
    “If i cherish you because I hold you dear, because in you my heart finds nourishment, my need satisfaction, then it is not done for the sake of a higher essence whose hallowed body you are, not on account of my beholding in you a ghost, an appearing spirit, but from egoistic pleasure; you yourself with *your* essence are valuable to me.”
    Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

  • #26
    Max Stirner
    “I am not nothing in the sense of emptiness, but I am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything.”
    Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

  • #27
    Max Stirner
    “But who is this self that is to be renounced and to have no benefit? It seems that *you* yourself are supposed to be it. And for whose benefit is unselfish self-renunciation recommended to you? Again, for *your* benefit and behoof, only through that unselfishness you are procuring your "true benefit." You are to benefit *yourself*, and yet you are not to seek *your* benefit”
    Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

  • #28
    Max Stirner
    “Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.”
    Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

  • #29
    Max Stirner
    “Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.”
    Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

  • #30
    Christine Brooke-Rose
    “The only access now to the world, the universe, is made through bits and pieces, clung to as small heroes battling against withdrawal.”
    Christine Brooke-Rose, Life, End of



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