In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat 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 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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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