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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

Gilles Deleuze

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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Install Institution Servant Stupidity System
Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Evaluation Existence Judgment Mode
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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Consciousness Image Movement Myself Transmit
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Belief Fake Necessary Production Suffocation
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
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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Encounter Force Fundamental Recognition Thinking World
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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Contribution Myself Objection Time
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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Custom Laws Man Moral Production Spirit
Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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Drugs Ghost Power Turn
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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Deep Impotent Power Vanity
What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Important Number Password Signature
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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Country Detail Map Meaning Writing
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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Interior Photography Point Space
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection

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