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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…
• Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
• Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
• For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established…
• These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press,…
• Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed…
• Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
• In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will…
• There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,
• The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to…
• Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So…
• The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic…

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