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.
ALAIN BADIOUBut more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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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’.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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