Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOUWe need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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