What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOUAll 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 and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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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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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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