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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

Gilles Deleuze

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
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
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Absence Landscape Man Perception
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
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
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
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
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
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
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
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
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Drift Lying Reason
Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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Journey Path Thinking

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