VIS VITALIS
 “ Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing or exhausted life. But an artist cannot be content with an exhausted life, nor with a personal life. One does not write with one's ego, one's memory, and one's illnesses. In the act of writing there's an attempt to make life something more personal, to liberate life from what imprisons it. [...] To create is not to communicate, but to resist. There is a profound link between signs, the event, life, and vitalism. It is the power of nonorganic life, that can be found in a line of a drawing, a line of writing. It is organisms that die, not life.
 [Gilles Deleuze, in "Pourparlers"]
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 VIS VITALIS
 “Signs refer to ways of life, to possibilities of existence; they are the symptoms of a gushing or exhausted life. An artist cannot be content with an exhausted life, nor with a personal life. One does not write with one's self, one's memory, and one's illnesses. In the act of writing, there is an attempt to make life something more than personal, to free life from what imprisons it. […] To create is not to communicate, but to resist. There is a profound connection between signs, the event, life, vitalism. It is the power of non-organic life, the one that can be found in a line of drawing, writing, or music. It is organisms that die, not life. There is no work that does not indicate a way out of life, that does not trace a path between the paving stones.”
 [Gilles Deleuze, in "Pourparlers"]