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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

Alain Badiou

Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
ALAIN BADIOU

Age Dance Let Malady Often Paas Philosophical Remedy Say Worse
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Burden Change Declare Destiny Horrify Love Mark Perilous Stage Transform
It must on the contrary be named.
ALAIN BADIOU

Contrary Must Name
In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
ALAIN BADIOU

Courage Deserve Falter Only Philosophy Through View Work
But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
ALAIN BADIOU

But Ignorance More Power Press Quite Spectator Subtly Unreason Written
To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
ALAIN BADIOU

Believe Burn Car Crime Intolerable Rob Shop Some
Without mathematics, we are blind.
ALAIN BADIOU

Blind Mathematics
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Archaic Call Consider Definition Exist Let Modern Old-fashion Way
What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOU

Does Express Kind One Point Two View World
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 BADIOU

Back Compose Connect Extract Language Mean Multiply Realty Stage
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
ALAIN BADIOU

Almost Kind Love Paradise Serenity
Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOU

Collect Communism Enthusiasm Love Minimal People Politics
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Abandon Capitalism Character Economy Hypothesis Immediate Inevitable Market Monstrous Inequalities Natural Parliamentary Resign State
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Bed Cure Democratic Light Relativist Sick Skeptical Spiritual Suppose Swallow Vaguely
I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
ALAIN BADIOU

Around Capitalism Everything Generalize Simple Surenderpure Surprise Today
I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOU

Always Assure Fact Feel Love Women
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOU

Engagement Figure Great Love Politics Two
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOU

Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Adventure Could Equality Love Necessary Need Tenacious
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
ALAIN BADIOU

Art Between Cinema Intrinsic Place
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOU

Compet Evil Good Lack Moment Strength
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOU

All Capitalism Good Humanity Liberal
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
ALAIN BADIOU

Euclid Like Mathematics Out-moded Party Say
It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
ALAIN BADIOU

False Grant Nothing Property Quite Sense Separate Simply Speak Whereof
The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOU

Aesthetic Certainly Effect Imaginary Real Reflection Since
We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
ALAIN BADIOU

Discipline Euclidian Invent Mathematics Need Political Respect
Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOU

Contrary Destructive Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle

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