The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
GILLES DELEUZEThe fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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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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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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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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 shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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