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.

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

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

We have the riots we deserve.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.