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Slavoj Žižek
“Q- What makes you depressed?

Seeing stupid people happy.”
― Slavoj Žižek

Gilles Deleuze
“There is no question, however, of establishing a dualist opposition between the two types of multiplicities, molecular machines and molar machines; that would be no better than the dualism between the One and the multiple. There are only multiplicities of multiplicities forming a single assemblage, operating in the same assemblage: packs in masses and masses in packs.”
― Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

Gilles Deleuze
“There are, you see, two ways of reading a book: you either see it as a box with something inside and start looking for what it signifies, and then if you're even more perverse or depraved you set off after signifiers. And you treat the next book like a box contained in the first or containing it. And you annotate and interpret and question, and write a book about the book, and so on and on. Or there's the other way: you see the book as a little non-signifying machine, and the only question is "Does it work, and how does it work?" How does it work for you? If it doesn't work, if nothing comes through, you try another book. This second way of reading's intensive: something comes through or it doesn't. There's nothing to explain, nothing to understand, nothing to interpret.”
― Gilles Deleuze

Slavoj Žižek
“We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.”
― Slavoj Žižek

Simone de Beauvoir
“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

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