In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

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

In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

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.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.