Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things.
Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Love is an answer to the lack that lies at the heart of aliveness, but it does not compensate for that lack—it transforms it. Love transforms that lack into an excess that produces new contradictions; it is the luminous chasm and the ephemeral mass, freedom in impossibility, the always insufficient answer to the paradox of life: "vivacidad pura" (Octavio Paz)—pure aliveness, experienced from inside the world.
Andreas Weber, Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology, trans. Rory Bradley
Andreas Weber, Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology, trans. Rory Bradley