Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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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 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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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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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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