The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOUFor 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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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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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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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