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“...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...”
― Plato, The Symposium

“I much applaud thy judgement; thou art well-read in a fellow.
And 'tis the deepest art to study man.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy

“She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles