In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
GILLES DELEUZEPsychoanalysts 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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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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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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