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Gilles Deleuze
Age: 70 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 18
Died: 1995
Died: November 4
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
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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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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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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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