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.
ALAIN BADIOUTo 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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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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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 those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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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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