‘Dialogue, when it is really open to the other, when it is goodwill that is not some vague expectation but an active desire to receive, to listen, to admit the universe of another, could not proceed to its ultimate conclusions without the sacrifice of one of the partners: that is to say, without repudiating itself as dialogue. Truly to engage in a dialogue would be to question one’s own being through the information that comes from another. It is to accept the risk that the other might remold us in his image and destroy all that makes us what we are.’

-Raymond Carpentier quoted in Kevin Hart’s The Dark Gaze. (Friendship is accepting that risk.)

‘…friendship is the truth of the disaster.’ (Blanchot letter to Bataille)