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“What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.”
― Liquid Modernity
― Liquid Modernity
“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.”
― Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds
True to their nature, love would strive to perpetuate the desire. Desire, on the other hand, would shun love's shackles.”
― Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds
“A consumerist attitude may lubricate the wheels of the economy; it sprinkles sand into the bearings of morality.”
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
“... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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