Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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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What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
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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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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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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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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.
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