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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

Gilles Deleuze

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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Bear Carry Existence Freedom Live
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
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
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
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Animal Oneself Voice
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Gate Multiple Philosophy Way
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.
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Criticism Principle Problem True Value
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Fight Man Salvation Serve Stubborn
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
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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Install Institution Servant Stupidity System
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
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
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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Contribution Myself Objection Time

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

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