In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
ALAIN BADIOUThe cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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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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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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