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.
GILLES DELEUZEWriting 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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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