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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.

Gilles Deleuze

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Absence Landscape Man Perception
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Monster Ration Reason Slumber
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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Form History Image People Philosophy Stop Thinking
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
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Fight Man Salvation Serve Stubborn
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
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
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
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Beginning End Love Reading
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
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
Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.
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Act Difference Existence Image Movement Production Reaction

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