Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
GILLES DELEUZEOne of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.
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According to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
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The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
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