I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOULet us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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.
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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.
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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