belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
GILLES DELEUZEAccording 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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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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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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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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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, 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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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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