It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
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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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