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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.

Alain Badiou

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
ALAIN BADIOU

Almost Kind Love Paradise Serenity
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
ALAIN BADIOU

Believe Burn Car Crime Intolerable Rob Shop Some
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Burden Change Declare Destiny Horrify Love Mark Perilous Stage Transform
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
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOU

Compet Evil Good Lack Moment Strength
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
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
ALAIN BADIOU

Communication Complete Ethics Opposite Truth
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
We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
ALAIN BADIOU

Discipline Euclidian Invent Mathematics Need Political Respect
We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOU

Communism Hypothesis Know Right
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
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Concern Event Material Miracle Must Point
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
ALAIN BADIOU

All Begin Engage Oneself Resistance Rupture Through
Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Blind Mathematics
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOU

Absolute Appearance Contingency Destiny Encounter Take
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
ALAIN BADIOU

Contact Love Narcissist Two

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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