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1. "I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline." ~ Alain Badiou
2. "Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death." ~ Alain Badiou
3. "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 Badiou
4. "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." ~ Alain Badiou
5. "Mieux vaut un désastre qu'un désêtre." ~ Alain Badiou
6. "We pose only those questions whose answers are the pre-given conditions of the questions themselves." ~ Alain Badiou
7. "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." ~ Alain Badiou
8. "All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself." ~ Alain Badiou
9. "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." ~ Alain Badiou
10. "Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests." ~ Alain Badiou
11. "Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me." ~ Alain Badiou
12. "There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise." ~ Alain Badiou
13. "I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always." ~ Alain Badiou
14. "Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can't be reduced to that contingency. But it immediately raised it to the level of transcendence, and that is the root of the problem. This universal element I too recognize in love as immanent. But Christianity has somehow managed to elevate it and refocus it onto a transcendent power. It's an ideal that was already partly present in Plato, through the idea of the Good. It is a brilliant first manipulation of the power of love and one we must now bring back to earth. I mean we must demonstrate that love really does have universal power, but that it is simply the opportunity we are given to enjoy a positive, creative, affirmative experience of difference. The Other, no doubt, but without the "Almighty-Other", without the "Great Other" of transcendence." ~ Alain Badiou
15. "These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance." ~ Alain Badiou
16. "It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in that which exceeds you perseverance. Persevere in the interruption. Seize in your being that which has seized and broken you." ~ Alain Badiou

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