Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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