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A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

Gilles Deleuze

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
GILLES DELEUZE

Knowledge Truth Understand
What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
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Combination Force Interest Operation Passage Space
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Alone Devil God Walk
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Animal Oneself Voice
There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Fear Hope Need Weapon
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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Custom Laws Man Moral Production Spirit
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.
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Act Difference Existence Image Movement Production Reaction
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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Constitution Curve Infinity
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Monster Ration Reason Slumber
Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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Drugs Ghost Power Turn
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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Brick Build Concept Ideas Reason Window
Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.
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Abstract Man Movement Production Progression
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

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