Quotes by Gilles Deleuze

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Gilles Deleuze is considered by many scholars to be his magnum opus.
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The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other possible directions. The approximation which follows is that, from that point, the sequences of images and even each i...

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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

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How many people today live in a language that is not their own? Or no longer, or not yet, even know their own and know poorly the major language that they are forced to serve? This is the problem of immigrants, and especially of their children, the p...

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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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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

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Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is funda...

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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

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Lose your face: become capable of loving without remembering, without phantasm and without interpretation, without taking stock. Let there just be fluxes, which sometimes dry up, freeze or overflow, which sometimes combine or diverge.

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Ce qui définit la majorité c’est un modèle auquel il faut être conforme. Tandis qu’une minorité n’a pas de modèles, c’est un devenir, un processus. Lorsqu’une minorité crée des modèles, c’est qu’elle veut être majoritaire ou q...

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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

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If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.

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Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment its amplitude, so as to produce a free act that expresses the most possible in one given condition or another. -- Gilles D...

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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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Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing (jaillissante) or exhausted (épuisée) life. But an artist cannot be content with an exhausted life, nor with a personal life. One does not write with on...

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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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Author Bio

  • NameGilles Deleuze
  • DescriptionFrench philosopher
  • BornJanuary 18, 1925
  • DiedNovember 4, 1995
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Historian; Writer