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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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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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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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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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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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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