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

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Source : Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.45, Profile Books

Alain Badiou

#Victory Quotes #Encounters Quotes #Defeated Quotes

“Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.”
“It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.”

Source : Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Félix Pita Rodríguez, Lino Novás Calvo, Horacio Quiroga, Francisco Ayala (1967). “Short stories of Latin America”
“[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honeyâ€™d dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning...”
“It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.”
“Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.”
“The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing. It is like saying that because a man can only walk about on two legs, therefore he never walks about except to buy shoes and stockings.”
“I don't have any frustrations. It sounds a little silly, but life is too short for me. I don't worry about all the things that happen, I just think about what to do with them. I work a lot with blind people in my spare time and I count my blessings every day.”

Source : "Unilever chief Paul Polman wants to orient company for the long term". Interview with Lillian Cunningham, www.smh.com.au. May 25, 2015.
“The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present”

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