I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOUThe aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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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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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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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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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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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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