There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
ALAIN BADIOULove and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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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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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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