Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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It must on the contrary be named.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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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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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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