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“ What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ”

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If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

~ Slavoj Žižek

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

~ Slavoj Žižek

The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.

~ Slavoj Žižek

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

~ Slavoj Žižek