Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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