The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
GILLES DELEUZEPhotography, 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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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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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
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One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.
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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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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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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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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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A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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According to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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