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"]