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

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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think

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

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

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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities

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

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Belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production

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The morality of customs, the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

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

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Evaluations, in essence, are… ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

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

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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

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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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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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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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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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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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Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.

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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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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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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

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To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

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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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One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.

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