Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
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.
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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.
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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?
Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
According to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
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.
Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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.
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?