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
GILLES DELEUZEIn truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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Every 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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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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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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