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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Alain Badiou

In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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Being Creation Fact Fragment Give Nothing Obscuranist Sccumb Situation Theory
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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Euclid Like Mathematics Out-moded Party Say
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Compet Evil Good Lack Moment Strength
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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Emancipation Enemy Establish Fear Hand Most Order Politics Repression
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Concern Event Material Miracle Must Point
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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Abandon Capitalism Character Economy Hypothesis Immediate Inevitable Market Monstrous Inequalities Natural Parliamentary Resign State
Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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Assumption Consist Failure Fallacious Love Relationship
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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All Capitalism Good Humanity Liberal
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Change Democracy Improve Ironical Necessary Order People Propose
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Engagement Figure Great Love Politics Two
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Contact Love Narcissist Two
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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Communication Complete Ethics Opposite Truth
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Country Elsewhere New Truth Word
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Art Between Cinema Intrinsic Place
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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Both Development New Subjective Truth Universal

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