I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOUThe 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.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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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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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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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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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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