There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
GILLES DELEUZEPhilosophy, 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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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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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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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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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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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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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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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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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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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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