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.
GILLES DELEUZEOnly 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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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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 shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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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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The 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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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 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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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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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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