The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
GILLES DELEUZEWrite, 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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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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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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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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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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Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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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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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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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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