Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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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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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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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