It must on the contrary be named.
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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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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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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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