The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
GILLES DELEUZEThe shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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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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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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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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