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“And I understood then that I was a fool when I told you I would take my turn in singing the honours of Love, and admitted I was terribly clever in love affairs, whereas it seems I really had no idea how a eulogy ought to be made. For I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.”
― Plato, 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...”
― Plato, The Symposium

“I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers