External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?
GILLES DELEUZELet us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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