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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.

Alain Badiou

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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Connect Limit Narcissistic Other Pleasure Sexual Yourself
It must on the contrary be named.
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Contrary Must Name
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Art Between Cinema Intrinsic Place
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
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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Always Consist Declare Emancipatory Impose Make Politics Possible Precisely Seem Situation
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Civil Course Institution Kind Latter Media Notably Science Television Trade Union
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
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
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 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
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Compet Evil Good Lack Moment Strength
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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Archaic Call Consider Definition Exist Let Modern Old-fashion Way
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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End Evolution Intrinsical Propagandistic Semantic Term Terrorist Today Word
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
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
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

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