Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOUTruth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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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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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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