The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
GILLES DELEUZEEvery time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: ‘OK, OK, let’s go on to something else.’ Objections have never contributed anything.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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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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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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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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Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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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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One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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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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