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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.

Alain Badiou

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOU

Always Assure Fact Feel Love Women
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Bed Cure Democratic Light Relativist Sick Skeptical Spiritual Suppose Swallow Vaguely
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
It must on the contrary be named.
ALAIN BADIOU

Contrary Must Name
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Both Development New Subjective Truth Universal
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
ALAIN BADIOU

Civil Course Institution Kind Latter Media Notably Science Television Trade Union
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Assumption Consist Failure Fallacious Love Relationship
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOU

Absolute Appearance Contingency Destiny Encounter Take
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
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
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Emancipation Enemy Establish Fear Hand Most Order Politics Repression
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOU

Death Impossible Like Love Risk War Without
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOU

Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
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
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
ALAIN BADIOU

Age Dance Let Malady Often Paas Philosophical Remedy Say Worse
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
ALAIN BADIOU

Art Between Cinema Intrinsic Place

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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