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It must on the contrary be named.

Alain Badiou

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  In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

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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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  Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

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  Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.

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  But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

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  In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.

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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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  To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers

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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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