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.
ALAIN BADIOULet us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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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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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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