The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

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.

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

The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

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

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

Love is not a contract between two narcissists.