The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
GILLES DELEUZEWhat 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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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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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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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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