Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
ALAIN BADIOULove without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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