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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

Gilles Deleuze

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
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Art Communication Creation Reflex
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
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
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
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
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
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
Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
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Abstract Active Difficult Philosophy Reflection State
The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.
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Aim Criticism Different End Justification Man Reason Sensibility Way
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Belief Fake Necessary Production Suffocation
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Alone Devil God Walk
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Monster Ration Reason Slumber
Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.
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Abstract Man Movement Production Progression

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