There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
ALAIN BADIOUWithout mathematics, we are blind.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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.
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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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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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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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