The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOUThere is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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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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