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.
ALAIN BADIOUIt 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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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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 need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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