Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat 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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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 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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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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