Anthony

“The habits of our lives make us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world. Now reality appears to be changed, unreal. When a man awakens, or dies, he is slow to free himself from the terrors of the dream, from the worries and manias of life. Now it will be hard for me to break the habit of being afraid of these people.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Although all becomings are already molecular, including becoming-woman, it must be said that all becomings begin with and pass through becoming-woman. It is the key to all the other becomings.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Free time – which is both idle time and time for higher activity – has naturally transformed its possessor into a different subject, and he then enters into the direct production process as this different subject. This process is then both discipline, as regards the human being in the process of becoming; and, at the same time, practice, experimental science, materially creative and objectifying science, as regards the human being who has become, in whose head exists the accumulated knowledge of society.”
― Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy

“Even the palest flowers have an almost animal vitality!”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel