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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

Gilles Deleuze

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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Combination Force Interest Operation Passage Space
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Absence Landscape Man Perception
Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: ‘OK, OK, let’s go on to something else.’ Objections have never contributed anything.
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Contribution Myself Objection Time
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
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
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
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Drift Lying Reason
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Gate Multiple Philosophy Way
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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Depend Psychology Revenge Spirit Trait
Writing 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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Country Detail Map Meaning Writing
There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Fear Hope Need Weapon
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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Custom Laws Man Moral Production Spirit
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Beginning End Love Reading
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
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?
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Consciousness Image Movement Myself Transmit

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