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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

Alain Badiou

We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Concern Event Material Miracle Must Point
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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Adventure Could Equality Love Necessary Need Tenacious
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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All Capitalism Good Humanity Liberal
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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All Begin Engage Oneself Resistance Rupture Through
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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Believe Burn Car Crime Intolerable Rob Shop Some
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Country Elsewhere New Truth Word
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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Burden Change Declare Destiny Horrify Love Mark Perilous Stage Transform
I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Around Capitalism Everything Generalize Simple Surenderpure Surprise Today
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Engagement Figure Great Love Politics Two
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Absolute Appearance Contingency Destiny Encounter Take
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Discipline Euclidian Invent Mathematics Need Political Respect
In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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Being Creation Fact Fragment Give Nothing Obscuranist Sccumb Situation Theory
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Age Dance Let Malady Often Paas Philosophical Remedy Say Worse
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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Assumption Consist Failure Fallacious Love Relationship
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Art Between Cinema Intrinsic Place

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