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.
GILLES DELEUZEReading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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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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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.
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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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