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External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?

Gilles Deleuze

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
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Creation Existence Extraordinary Subject
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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Brick Build Concept Ideas Reason Window
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Fear Hope Need Weapon
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.
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Bear Carry Existence Freedom Live
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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Constitution Curve Infinity
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
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
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
Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
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Break Multiple Point Willing
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Belief Fake Necessary Production Suffocation
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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Deep Impotent Power Vanity
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Drift Lying Reason
The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Discover Fundamental Philosophy Politics Problem Salvation Stubborn

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