The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
GILLES DELEUZEThe shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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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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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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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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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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?
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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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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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Let 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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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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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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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