All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
ALAIN BADIOUI feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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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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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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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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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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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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