The Radicality of Love

recognize themselves as the reflection of God, and that they love and respect each other as Father and Son. No one gives what the other does (or doesn’t) have; each of them opens up the space for the other and its freedom

Man and woman are not compatible, but the point is that two people

The act of “falling in love” is still not love

act of “falling in love” is still not love

there is no love without the fall. On the one side, this fall consists in the incredible moments when you occupy a square or die under the renewed caress of bullets, and on the other, you can be sure you are already in the fall, you are falling, when you suddenly become paralyzed by someone’s eyes.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness

love is, as Alain Badiou puts it, a form of “minimal communism.” Love is communism for two. But love is as difficult as communism, and can often end up as tragic as communism

the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love

If desire is repressed, it is because every position of desire, no matter how small, is capable of calling into question the established order of a society: not that desire is asocial, on the contrary. But it is explosive; there is no desiring-machine capable of being assembled without demolishing entire social sectors

After all, is there anything more subversive than desire?