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

Gilles Deleuze

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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Encounter Force Fundamental Recognition Thinking World
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
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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Contribution Myself Objection Time
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
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Important Number Password Signature
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Gate Multiple Philosophy Way
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
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Fight Man Salvation Serve Stubborn
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.
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Act Difference Existence Image Movement Production Reaction
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
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
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
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
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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Abstract Active Difficult Philosophy Reflection State
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
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
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Animal Oneself Voice
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
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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Art Aspect Brain Philosophy Science Subject
Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
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Break Multiple Point Willing
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
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Court Notion Recognition Responsibility Room
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
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
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 percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

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