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

Gilles Deleuze

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
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
The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Discover Fundamental Philosophy Politics Problem Salvation Stubborn
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
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
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
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
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
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Gate Multiple Philosophy Way
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
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 shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Drift Lying Reason
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
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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Body Brain Eyes Images Oneself

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