"A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the……" — Gilles Deleuze
"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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55 Quotes by Gilles Deleuze
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- A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
- Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general,…
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