Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
GILLES DELEUZENietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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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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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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