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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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Gilles Deleuze
Age: 70 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 18
Died: 1995
Died: November 4
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