The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the genesis of the act of thinking in thought itself. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter

Gilles Deleuze

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The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.

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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 creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

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To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.

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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

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Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

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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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Images exist; things themselves are images... Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.

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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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There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.

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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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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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The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.

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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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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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The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

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The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

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