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.
GILLES DELEUZEIt’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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.
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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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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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