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.
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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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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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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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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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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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