Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.
GILLES DELEUZEIn order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
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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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Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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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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