I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOUThe cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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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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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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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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