I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOUIf 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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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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 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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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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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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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