It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
GILLES DELEUZE
GILLES DELEUZE
Gilles Deleuze on change
Gilles Deleuze58 quotes“It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.”
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