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 BADIOUThose who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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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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