“God cannot know anything, will anything or do anything without me. With God I created myself, I created all things, and my hand holds up heaven, earth and all the creatures of the earth. Without me there is nothing.”
― The Revolution of Everyday Life
― The Revolution of Everyday Life
“The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?”
― Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
― Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“I found out I was in love with you, winter before last," she said. "I wasn't going to say anything about it because - well, you know. If you'd felt anything like that for me, you'd have known I did. But it wasn't both of us. So there was no good in it. But then, when you told us you're leaving ... At first I thought, all the more reason to say nothing. But then I thought, that wouldn't be fair. To me, partly. Love has a right to be spoken. And you have a right to know that somebody loves you. That somebody has loved you, could love you. We all need to know that. [...]”
― A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
― A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
“He was so scared of what she wanted to say to him - that she had discovered his true being: that all he hid had been uncovered. That his mother had somehow found a mouth into his world and learned what he was. Not a boy anymore, or even a person.”
― Amygdalatropolis
― Amygdalatropolis
“In any case, even if there’d been a war, it would have mirrored what was going on in my head.’
‘But how could war mirror anything inside your head? A war would have made you happy?’
‘Why not?’
‘So you think war could lead to revolution?’
‘I’m talking about war, not about what it could lead to.’
Nothing could have shocked her more cruelly than what I had just said.”
― Blue of Noon
‘But how could war mirror anything inside your head? A war would have made you happy?’
‘Why not?’
‘So you think war could lead to revolution?’
‘I’m talking about war, not about what it could lead to.’
Nothing could have shocked her more cruelly than what I had just said.”
― Blue of Noon
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