What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOULove 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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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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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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