The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
GILLES DELEUZECan you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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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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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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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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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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