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.
ALAIN BADIOUThe absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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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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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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