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 BADIOUI am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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