Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
ALAIN BADIOUlet us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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