belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production

What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.

My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like anyone else I make my inner journeys that I can only measure by my emotions, and express very obliquely and circuitously in what I write. ... Arguments from one's own privileged experience are bad and reactionary arguments.

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?