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“People are constantly putting up an umbrella that shelters them in a firmament of conventions and opinions. But poets make a slit in the umbrella, they tear open the firmament itself, to let in a bit of free and windy chaos and to frame in a sudden light a vision that appears through the tear. But t…”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?

“Art begins not with flesh but with the house. That is why architecture is the first of the arts.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?

“This is, precisely, the task of all art and, from colors and sounds, both music and painting similarly extract new harmonies, new plastic or melodic landscapes, and new rhythmic characters that raise them to the height of the earth’s song and the cry of humanity: that which constitutes tone, health,…”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?

“The artist is a seer, a becomer. He has seen something in life that is too great, too unbearable also, and the mutual embrace of life with what threatens it, so that the corner of nature or districts of the town that he sees, along with their characters, accede to a vision that, through them, compos…”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?

“It is always a question of freeing life wherever it is imprisoned, or of tempting it into an uncertain combat.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?

“The researchers showed that programmers' stress levels were a better predictor of the quality (and thus the maintainability) of their code than the more costly process of code-review, where another programmer checks a colleague's work before it is put into production, in order to ensure that it will…”

— Cory Doctorow, Programmers' stress levels can accurately predict the quality of their code

“From virtuals we descend to actual states of affairs, and from states of affairs we ascend to virtuals, without being able to isolate one from the other.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?

“Logic is always defeated by itself, that is to say, by the insignificance of the cases on which it thrives.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?

“Chaos is defined not so much by its disorder as by the infinite speed with which every form taking shape in it vanishes. It is a void that is not a nothingness but a virtual, containing all possible particles and drawing out all possible forms, which spring up only to disappear immediately.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?

“It seemed to her that there was something amateurish in bringing romantic love into touch with a perfectly straightforward friendship.”

— Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“She drank its crystal flow.”

— Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems

“I love to hear your beautiful voice, And I love to look on your handsome shape. All of your good qualities move me On first sight they make me want swear that I love you.”

— William Shakespeare, Titania, A Midnight Summer Nights Dream

“This is what it is to be complete. It is horrible.”

— Sylvia Plath, Berck-Plage

“Bright as Eden’s used to be That air and earth have rested me Laid on the grass I lapsed away”

— Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems

“Fall leaves fall die flowers away Lengthen night and shorten day Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow I shall sing when night’s decay Ushers in a drearier day”

— Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems

“All of us want to realize ourselves as distinct persons, but we also want others — lots of others — to know that we are our own distinct selves. We do not want to be unique all alone.”

— , Three American Literatures

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”

— John Berger, Ways Of Seeing

“The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men can gawk at women but when we realize how beautiful we are we’re suddenly ful…”

— Kim Kiyun, via Tumblr

“And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.”

— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“The more you love yourself, the less nonsense you’ll tolerate.”

— Anonymous, The Artidote