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.
ALAIN BADIOULove and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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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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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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