The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities

The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.