Deserted Islands

...To that question so dear to the old explorers- "which creatures live on deserted islands?"- one could only answer:  human beings live there already, but uncommon humans, they are absolutely separate, absolute creators, in short, an Idea of humanity, a prototype, a man who would almost be a god, a woman who would be a goddess, a great Amnesiac, a pure Artist, a consciousness of Earth and Ocean, an enormous hurricane, a beautiful witch, a statue from the Easter Islands.  There you have a human being who precedes itself.  Such a creature on a deserted island would be the deserted island itself, insofar as it imagines and reflects itself in the first movement....

From Desert Islands and Other Texts, 1953-1974 by Gilles Deleuze.