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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.

Gilles Deleuze

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
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
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
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
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Fight Man Salvation Serve Stubborn
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
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Animal Oneself Voice
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
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
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
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
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
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
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Gate Multiple Philosophy Way
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
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Beginning End Love Reading

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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