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“Real dialogue isn’t about talking to people who believe the same things as you.”
― Zygmunt Bauman

“Desire and love act at cross purposes. love is a net cast on eternity, desire is a stratagem to be spared the chores of net weaving.

True to their nature, love would strive to perpetuate the desire. Desire, on the other hand, would shun love's shackles.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds

“The main point about civility is...the ability to interact with strangers without holding
their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce
some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity

“In other words, it is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning ― but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things. Love is akin to transcendence; it is but another name for creative drive and as such is fraught with risks, as all creation is never sure where it is going to end.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds

“What happens is never unpredictable: there are always breaches, carelessness, incompetence, omissions, which have not prevented the occurrence.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, State of Crisis

“And the enticement to seek a rose without thorns is never far away and always difficult to resist.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds