In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
ALAIN BADIOUThe aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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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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