The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
GILLES DELEUZEIn truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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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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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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