The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
GILLES DELEUZEPsychoanalysts 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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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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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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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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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