In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
ALAIN BADIOUThe aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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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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