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.
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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