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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

“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