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Bergson, via Deleuze: "the notion of 'knowledge' is the first thing in existence after the image, and hence is in itself an uni-directional object; this must be distinguished from the notion of 'knowledge as self-consciousness', which has the tendency to be a very different thing from experience."
However, the very act of creating the concept of a concept, the act of conceptualizing and conceiving of it, is the very first kind of actualization of these ideas in our souls which gives us the possibility of being truly alive. This is the experience of being alive; it is the first life we can have. This is our first act of becoming living creatures; if we want to become living beings, we have to become living beings who are alive. It is the first thing we have to learn.
Here, Deleuze says that in his thought a "conceptualisation" is the "first-order" and only "conceptualisation" of any concept; the "conceptualizing" of that concept itself, which is its very conception.

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Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze.

Start with Bergson first. He develops many themes that are similar to Nietzsche: time and becoming, matter as images, élan vital, creative evolution...
(There's a nice reader "Henri Bergson: Key Writings", and it's on libgen.org.)

Then maybe checkout Deleuze's "Nietzsche and Philosophy" and "Bergsonism". Deleuze's three main influences are Bergson, Nietzsche, and Spinoza. So there's again a repetition of similar themes.

I still find Nietzsche most powerful, but these other two developed some things more systematically. Their writing can also be quite vitalistic but not on the same level as Nietzsche's.