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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.

Alain Badiou

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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Assumption Consist Failure Fallacious Love Relationship
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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Both Development New Subjective Truth Universal
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Concern Event Material Miracle Must Point
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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All Begin Engage Oneself Resistance Rupture Through
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Absolute Appearance Contingency Destiny Encounter Take
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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Adventure Could Equality Love Necessary Need Tenacious
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Art Atheist Inhuman Main
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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Believe Develop Difference Experience Identity Live Love Point World
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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Abandon Capitalism Character Economy Hypothesis Immediate Inevitable Market Monstrous Inequalities Natural Parliamentary Resign State
Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Contrary Destructive Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle
But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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But Ignorance More Power Press Quite Spectator Subtly Unreason Written
I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Always Assure Fact Feel Love Women
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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Burden Change Declare Destiny Horrify Love Mark Perilous Stage Transform
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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Communication Complete Ethics Opposite Truth
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Country Elsewhere New Truth Word
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.
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Back Compose Connect Extract Language Mean Multiply Realty Stage

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