"There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,"

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Source : "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

Alain Badiou

#Serenity Quotes #Paradise Quotes #Kind Quotes

“My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.”

Source : "Patsy Kensit: My family values" by Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.
“Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.”
“I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.”
“Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.”
“With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.”
“Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.”
“People said, â€˜You must be mad, or on drugs,â€™ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume youâ€™re on drugs or mad, rather than free.”
“Coo...coo... here comes the dove from above!”

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