In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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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.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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