Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
ALAIN BADIOULove and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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