"The question is thus how to make of leaving something as simple and joyous as dying. But to make of leaving something light and simple requires nothing less than a turn in thinking, its stepping out of time. For if leaving is joyous it is because we do not mourn what we have left, which is possible only if by leaving it we did not lose it. Not to lose what we have left is, for its part, possible only if by leaving whatever we are leaving we also leave our self in the place we abandoned and arrive at another self. What it as stake here is the radical discontinuity between two selves; instead of the temporal synthesis of the two selves performed by mourning, their spatial separation. The trick is to leave one's self in some place and to emerge in another space as a newly-born self. Which is why this innocent self has to start from the beginning time and again. It has to invent and learn new motions, emotions, thoughts, languages and (even if for a day only) how to build a new house. The house of those who 'know' how to leave it is thus radically different from the house of those who learn how to die (in it)." Branka Arsic, "Thinking Leaving" in Deleuze and Space.