Gilles Deleuze

"Beauty emerges at the intersections of difference and repetition"

"Time is not a container but a production of differences"

"Family is not given but constructed through repeated encounters"

"Hope is the capacity to imagine alternatives"

"Courage is the willingness to become something other than yourself"

"Friendship is the only social relation that escapes the logic of exchange"

"The lover does not seek to possess but to proliferate difference"

"Every smooth space contains the seeds of striated space"

"The sign does not represent reality but creates it"

"We are all minor, all minoritarian in relation to some norm"

"The virtual is as real as the actual"

"Sense is not meaning but an event"

"The fold is the basic unit of reality, not the line or the point"

"Desire is productive, not lack"

"Society functions through the capture of desire"

"The question 'why?' already assumes a hierarchical worldview"

"Becoming is always multiple, never singular"

"The book is for us like a bulb, not a seed"

"Repetition creates difference through each iteration"

"We must learn to think in terms of assemblages, not structures"

"The minor language stutters, repeating the major in a new way"

"Every line of flight creates new territories"

"Power is not something one has but something one does"

"The problem is not power but how we organize ourselves in relation to it"

"Consciousness is not the essence but an effect of relations"

"The event is what escapes causality"

"Intensity is not quantity but quality of experience"

"We must learn to think with our bodies, not against them"

"The future is not predetermined but created through present choices"

"Forgetting is as important as remembering in creating identity"