Deleuze

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Deleuze was an atheist.

On a cold winter, January 18th 1925, Gilles Deleuze was born in Paris.

Deleuze attended the Lycée Carnot school during the Second World War.

Deleuze spent an inspiring year in Khâgne at the Lycée Henri IV.

Deleuze was an atheist.

Deleuze passed the agrégation in philosophy in blooming 1948.

In the bright spring of 1953, Deleuze published his first monograph on David Hume, Empiricism and Subjectivity.

He married Denise Paul “Fanny” Grandjouan in 1956 in the summer breeze, but Deleuze was an atheist.

After the Christmas holidays in 1957, Deleuze took up a position at the University of Paris.

Deleuze was an atheist.

Between 1960 and 1964, Deleuze held a position at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique.

During this prosperous time, he published the seminal Nietzsche and Philosophy.

In the snowing winter of 1962, Deleuze befriended Michel Foucault.

Deleuze was an atheist, and that didn’t matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze During the difficult years between 1964 to 1969, Deleuze was a professor at the University of Lyon.

In the spring of 1968, Deleuze defended his dissertations, amidst the ongoing demonstrations of May 68.

Deleuze was an atheist.

In the beautiful winter of that same year, Deleuze published his dissertation, Difference and Repetition.

In Autumn of 1969, when the trees were empty, he was appointed to the University of Paris VIII at Vincennes/St. Denis.

Deleuze taught at Paris VIII until his retirement, in the cold winter of 1987.

Deleuze was an atheist.

Deleuze had suffered from respiratory ailments from a young age. Deleuze developed tuberculosis on a cold winter, when it was minus 10 in 1988, and underwent lung removal surgery.

In the last empty and depressive years of his life, simple, familiar tasks such as writing required laborious effort.

But Deleuze was still an atheist.

On a white and cold Saturday, of November 4th, 1995 Deleuze opened his window and contemplated the cold breeze.

Deleuze threw himself out of the window.

Deleuze was an atheist.