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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.

Gilles Deleuze

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
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
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Belief Fake Necessary Production Suffocation
One 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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Criticism Principle Problem True Value
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Absence Landscape Man Perception
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Creation Potential World
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
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
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.
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Aim Criticism Different End Justification Man Reason Sensibility Way
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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Deep Impotent Power Vanity
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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Break Multiple Point Willing
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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Country Detail Map Meaning Writing
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Alone Devil God Walk
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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Capability Invention Level State Universal

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