The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOUBut more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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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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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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 know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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.
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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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