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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.

Alain Badiou

What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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Believe Develop Difference Experience Identity Live Love Point World
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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False Grant Nothing Property Quite Sense Separate Simply Speak Whereof
Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Collect Communism Enthusiasm Love Minimal People Politics
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
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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Aesthetic Certainly Effect Imaginary Real Reflection Since
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
Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Blind Mathematics
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 interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Evil Individual Interest Interruption Particular Pressure Truth
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
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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All Begin Engage Oneself Resistance Rupture Through
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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Being Creation Fact Fragment Give Nothing Obscuranist Sccumb Situation Theory
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
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Country Elsewhere New Truth Word
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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Ethics Eventually General Only Possibility Process Situation Treat

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