Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
ALAIN BADIOUThere is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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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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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.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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