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A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

Gilles Deleuze

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
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
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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Element Force History Moral Ourselves Principle Revenge Thinking
In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
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Carry Earth Freedom Music Order Return Structure
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
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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Drugs Ghost Power Turn
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Creation Potential World
There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Fear Hope Need Weapon
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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Beyond Lying Movement Oneself
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Monster Ration Reason Slumber
Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
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Capability Invention Level State Universal
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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Abstract Man Movement Production Progression
Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
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Abstract Active Difficult Philosophy Reflection State
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
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
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
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
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
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Alone Devil God Walk
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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Aim Criticism Different End Justification Man Reason Sensibility Way
It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
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Change Direction Easy Right See Sight Yourself
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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Country Detail Map Meaning Writing
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Absence Landscape Man Perception
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Beginning End Love Reading
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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Custom Laws Man Moral Production Spirit
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special

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