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?
GILLES DELEUZEForming 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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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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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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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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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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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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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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