The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
GILLES DELEUZEUnderneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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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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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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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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