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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

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Animal Oneself Voice
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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Aim Criticism Different End Justification Man Reason Sensibility Way
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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Creation Existence Extraordinary Subject
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Fear Hope Need Weapon
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
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
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
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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Form Fundamental Grammar Ignorance Law Normal Politics Sentence Social
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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Art Communication Creation Reflex
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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Art Aspect Brain Philosophy Science Subject
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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Compromise Generation Human Misery State
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
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

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