"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."

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

Alain Badiou

#Narcissistic Quotes #Want Quotes #Limits Quotes

“I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die.”

Source : "Song: Draper (Carwreck Conversations)". 2004.
“I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.”
“The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My work is an act of communication, and it's important to me the way what I assert lands, and where it lands within someone who sees it. On the other hand, I also recognize fully and live by the principle that once the work leaves my studio, I cannot control the effects it has.”
“And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.”
“Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.”
“"Not being virulently and overtly racist against black people" and "treating gay people like human beings" are necessary conditions of greatness.”
“I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view - which is what, along with my reason, entitles me to refute it. You can't rationally reject something until you know all about it.”

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