The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
GILLES DELEUZEYou never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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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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A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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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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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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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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.
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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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