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 BADIOUI feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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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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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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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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