Gilles Deleuze

"The other is not a mirror but an abyss"

"Language is not transparent but opaque with meaning"

"Art is the creation of new sensory possibilities"

"The body without organs is a plane of consistency"

"Meaning is not found but produced in the act of reading"

"We are all hybrid beings, assemblages of human and non-human"

"The smooth and the striated are not opposites but complements"

"Every identity contains the seeds of its own dissolution"

"The minor literature speaks for those without a voice"

"Thought is not an individual possession but a collective event"

"The virtual is the space of potential becomings"

"We must become who we are, not discover who we are"

"The problem is never one of insufficient democracy but of reimagining democracy itself"

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence itself is a form of rebellion."

"We don't have a being that precedes doing or acting; rather, being is produced through continuous becomings."

"Empiricism is not a philosophy of experience; it is a philosophy of the event."

"To write is to reach that point where only something impersonal and neutral remains."

"The more you succeed in losing yourself in something meaningful, the more you truly become yourself."

"Difference and repetition are not opposed; they are woven together in every act of becoming."

"Every society secretes smooth spaces in its interstices, against and alongside the striped spaces of the state."

"The tree is binary, the rhizome is a network of multiple connections without hierarchy."

"Control society operates not by confinement but by continuous modulation and constant variation."

"Art is not meant to represent the world; it is meant to create a new world."

"Thought itself must be cut to pieces and put together anew; this is the work of the concept."

"The great writers are not those who imitate life but those who create new possibilities of life."

"To become something is not to imitate it but to conjugate your own forces with its forces."

"Language is not made for communication; communication is just one secondary function of language."

"A concept without a percept is empty; a percept without a concept is blind."

"The questioner is always already invested in the question; objectivity is a myth."

"Minor literature is defined not by language but by political commitment and collective value."