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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

Gilles Deleuze

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
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
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Beginning End Love Reading
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Creation Potential World
Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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Journey Path Thinking
Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Evaluation Existence Judgment Mode
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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Depend Psychology Revenge Spirit Trait
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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Bear Carry Existence Freedom Live
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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Beyond Lying Movement Oneself
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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Install Institution Servant Stupidity System
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Animal Oneself Voice
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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Combination Force Interest Operation Passage Space
The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
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Element Force History Moral Ourselves Principle Revenge Thinking
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

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