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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

Gilles Deleuze

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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Art Communication Creation Reflex
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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Install Institution Servant Stupidity System
To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
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Bear Carry Existence Freedom Live
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Animal Oneself Voice
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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Beyond Lying Movement Oneself
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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Encounter Force Fundamental Recognition Thinking World
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Alone Devil God Walk
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Creation Potential World
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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Discover Fundamental Philosophy Politics Problem Salvation Stubborn
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Drift Lying Reason
There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Fear Hope Need Weapon
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
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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Body Brain Eyes Images Oneself

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