The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
GILLES DELEUZEIntuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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According to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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.
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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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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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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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