A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
GILLES DELEUZEOne of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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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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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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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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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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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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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