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 BADIOUWe 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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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 is not a contract between two narcissists.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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