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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

Gilles Deleuze

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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Creation Existence Extraordinary Subject
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Monster Ration Reason Slumber
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
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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Brick Build Concept Ideas Reason Window
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
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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Consistency Machine Point Territory Writing
What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Important Number Password Signature
There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Fear Hope Need Weapon
Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
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Form Fundamental Grammar Ignorance Law Normal Politics Sentence Social
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Court Notion Recognition Responsibility Room
Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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Drugs Ghost Power Turn
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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Depend Psychology Revenge Spirit Trait
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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Compromise Generation Human Misery State
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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Combination Force Interest Operation Passage Space
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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Change Direction Easy Right See Sight Yourself
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

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