Deleuze writes, "An island doesn't stop being deserted simply because it is inhabited. [...]

 [S]ome people can occupy the island -- it is still deserted, 

all the more so, provided they are sufficiently, that is, absolutely separate, and provided they are sufficient, absolute creators. [...] 

Far from compromising it, humans bring the desertedness to its perfection and highest point. 

[H]umans do not put an end to desertedness; they make it sacred.

[T]hrough them the island would in the end become conscious of itself as deserted and unpeopled. [...]

There is but one condition: 

humans would have to reduce themselves to the movement that brings them to the island. 

The geography and the imagination would be one. 

But [because humans] are unable to join with the elan that produces the island; 

they always encounter it from the outside.