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““It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id.””

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“Philosophy is the theory of multiplicities, each of which is composed of actual and virtual elements. Purely actual objects do not exist. Every actual…

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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…

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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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“The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.”

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

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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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“The modulating principle of “salary according to merit” has not failed to tempt national education itself. Indeed, just as the corporation replaces the factory,…

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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…

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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…

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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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The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find…

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Intensities are implicated multiplicities, 'implexes,' made up of relations between asymmetrical elements.

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