Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
GILLES DELEUZEThe plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Psychoanalysts 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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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