“Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”
― The Symposium
― The Symposium
“And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.”
― The Symposium
― The Symposium
“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...”
― The Symposium
― The Symposium
“Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.”
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“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”
― The Symposium
― The Symposium
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