What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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