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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.

Gilles Deleuze

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
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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Deep Impotent Power Vanity
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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Brick Build Concept Ideas Reason Window
External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?
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Consciousness Image Movement Myself Transmit
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
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
Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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Development Feeling Inspirational Intuition Method Sympathy
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Animal Oneself Voice
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Belief Fake Necessary Production Suffocation
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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Form History Image People Philosophy Stop Thinking
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
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Drift Lying Reason
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

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