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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

Alain Badiou

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.
ALAIN BADIOU

False Grant Nothing Property Quite Sense Separate Simply Speak Whereof
The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOU

Aesthetic Certainly Effect Imaginary Real Reflection Since
We have the riots we deserve.
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Deserve Riot We
What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
ALAIN BADIOU

Back Compose Connect Extract Language Mean Multiply Realty Stage
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
ALAIN BADIOU

Always Consist Declare Emancipatory Impose Make Politics Possible Precisely Seem Situation
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOU

All Capitalism Good Humanity Liberal
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

End Evolution Intrinsical Propagandistic Semantic Term Terrorist Today Word
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOU

Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
ALAIN BADIOU

Almost Kind Love Paradise Serenity
What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOU

Does Express Kind One Point Two View World
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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Euclid Like Mathematics Out-moded Party Say
What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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Believe Develop Difference Experience Identity Live Love Point World
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Discipline Have Nothing Only
Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOU

Contrary Destructive Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Archaic Call Consider Definition Exist Let Modern Old-fashion Way
Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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Assumption Consist Failure Fallacious Love Relationship

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