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 process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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 have the riots we deserve.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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.
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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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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.
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