All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Alain Badiou
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every...
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every...
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every...
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every...
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To refuse what is is to resist the flow of life. The way to live is to live in the present--to accept what is and to move forward from there.

Source: Metapolitics

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