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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

Gilles Deleuze

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
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
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
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.
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Criticism Principle Problem True Value
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Belief Fake Necessary Production Suffocation
Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.
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Abstract Man Movement Production Progression
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
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
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Creation Potential World
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
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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Consistency Machine Point Territory Writing
Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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Constitution Curve Infinity
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

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