"The real is that which always returns to the same place." —Jacques Lacan

"Philosophically, if the other doesn't matter it is indeed because the difficulty lies on the side of the Same. The Same, in effect, is not what is (i.e. the infinite multiplicity of differences) but what comes to be." —Alain Badiou

"The eternal return is indeed the Similar, repetition in the eternal return is indeed the identical—but precisely the resemblance and the identity do not pre-exist the return of that which returns. They do not in the first instance qualify what returns, they are indistinguishable from its return. It is not the same which returns, it is not the similar which returns; rather, the Same is the returning of that which returns." —Gilles Deleuze


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