The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
ALAIN BADIOUThose who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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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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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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