Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
GILLES DELEUZEEither it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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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 shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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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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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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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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