The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOUThere is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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