We have the riots we deserve.

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

We have the riots we deserve.

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.

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

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

If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.