I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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let 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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