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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.

Alain Badiou

It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
ALAIN BADIOU

False Grant Nothing Property Quite Sense Separate Simply Speak Whereof
It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
ALAIN BADIOU

End Evolution Intrinsical Propagandistic Semantic Term Terrorist Today Word
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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Does Express Kind One Point Two View World
Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Collect Communism Enthusiasm Love Minimal People Politics
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
ALAIN BADIOU

Discipline Have Nothing Only
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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Communication Complete Ethics Opposite Truth
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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Ethics Eventually General Only Possibility Process Situation Treat
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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All Capitalism Good Humanity Liberal
Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Blind Mathematics
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Emancipation Enemy Establish Fear Hand Most Order Politics Repression
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOU

Absolute Appearance Contingency Destiny Encounter Take
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Contact Love Narcissist Two
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Compet Evil Good Lack Moment Strength
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Age Dance Let Malady Often Paas Philosophical Remedy Say Worse
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Believe Develop Difference Experience Identity Live Love Point World
I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOU

Always Assure Fact Feel Love Women

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