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.
GILLES DELEUZEAccording 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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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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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Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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