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• The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

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  Animal, Shadow, Body

  Gilles Deleuze (2005). “Francis Bacon”, p.16, A&C Black

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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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  Government, Leftists, Left

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• The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.

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  Revenge, Thinking, Essence

  Gilles Deleuze (2006). “Nietzsche and Philosophy”, p.32, A&C Black

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• The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.

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  Real, Consistency, Metaphor

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.77, A&C Black

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• Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

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  Art, Philosophy, Brain

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (1994). “What is Philosophy?”, p.210, Verso

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• It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

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  Monsters, Slumber, Reason

  Gilles Deleuze, FeÌl?ix Guattari (2004). “Anti-Oedipus”, p.122, A&C Black

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• The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

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  Philosopher

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• My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

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  Eye, Brain, Body

  Gilles Deleuze (2013). “Cinema I: The Movement-Image”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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  Music, Song, Powerful

  "Essays critical and clinical" by Gilles Deleuze, (p. 104), 1993.

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

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  Writing, Men, Shame

  Gilles Deleuze (1998). “Essays Critical and Clinical”, p.1, Verso

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• Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of beliefs that only the very faithful could adhere to, i.e., those who believe in a security that amounts to being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals

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  Believe, Goal, Faithful

  Gilles Deleuze, FeÌl?ix Guattari (2004). “Anti-Oedipus”, p.18, A&C Black

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• In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

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  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.41, A&C Black

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• There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

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  Misery, States, Democratic

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• 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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  Vanity, Depth, Draws

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.249, A&C Black

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• Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

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  Reading, Ends

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

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  Philosophy, Thinking, People

  Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet (2007). “Dialogues II”, p.13, Columbia University Press

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• The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a higher, nobler one in closer conformity with the supposed ideal. Then from the point of subjectification issues a subject of enunciation, as a function of a mental reality determined by that point. Then from the subject of enunciation issues a subject of the statement, in other words, a subject bound to statements in conformity with a dominant reality

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  Moving, Reality, Issues

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• What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like anyone else I make my inner journeys that I can only measure by my emotions, and express very obliquely and circuitously in what I write. ... Arguments from one's own privileged experience are bad and reactionary arguments.

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  Believe, Writing, Journey

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• I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.

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  Zero, Years, Tasks

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• 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

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  Thinking, Encounters, Fundamentals

  Gilles Deleuze (2004). “Difference and Repetition”, p.176, A&C Black

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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?

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  Movement, Return, Consciousness

  Gilles Deleuze (2013). “Cinema I: The Movement-Image”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

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  Philosophy, Believe, I Believe

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• 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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  Goes On, Want, Objections

  Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet (2007). “Dialogues II”, p.1, Columbia University Press

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• Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the expense of reality itself. They talk figures and icons and signs, but fail to perceive forces and flows. They bind us to other realities, and especially the reality of power as it subjugates us. Their function is to tame, and the result is the fabrication of docile and obedient subjects.

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  Eye, Reality, Taught Us

  Gilles Deleuze, FeÌl?ix Guattari (2004). “Anti-Oedipus”, p.22, A&C Black

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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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  Photography, Space, Shots

  Gilles Deleuze (2013). “Cinema I: The Movement-Image”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing

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