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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.

Gilles Deleuze

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 percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Absence Landscape Man Perception
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
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Gate Multiple Philosophy Way
Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: ‘OK, OK, let’s go on to something else.’ Objections have never contributed anything.
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Contribution Myself Objection Time
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Alone Devil God Walk
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
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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Encounter Force Fundamental Recognition Thinking World
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
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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Bear Carry Existence Freedom Live
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
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
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
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Element Force History Moral Ourselves Principle Revenge Thinking
In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
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Carry Earth Freedom Music Order Return Structure

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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