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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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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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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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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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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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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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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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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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