Tag: hannibal

byronicwoman:

[W]hen
one … meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, … the pair
are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not
be out of the other’s sight, … even for a moment: these are the people who pass
their whole lives together, and yet they could not explain what they desire of
one another. For the intense yearning which each of them has towards the other
does not appear to be the desire of lover’s intercourse, but of something else
which the soul of either evidently desires and cannot tell, and of which she
has only a dark and doubtful presentiment. … [H]uman nature was originally one
and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love.”  – Aristophane’s Speech in Plato’s Symposium

(glorious gifs by @bosswaldcobblepot from this post.)