Day 05 → Your favourite quote
Day 05 → Your favourite quote
"He suddenly recalled the famous myth from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we lost.
Let us suppose that such is the case, that somewhere in the world each of us has a partner who once formed part of our body. Tomas's other part is the young woman he dreamed about. The trouble is, man does not find the other part of himself. Instead, he is sent a Tereza in a bulrush basket. But what happens if he nevertheless meets the one who was meant for him, the other part of himself? Whom is he to prefer? The woman from the bulrush basket or the the woman from Plato's myth?"
It's from The Unbearable Lightness of Being, one of my favorite books by Milan Kundera.
Some honorable mentions:
"It's real for us," and "Always." Severus Snape.
"It is because they have never seen you. I would recognize you anywhere." The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.
"Not the things that are, but the things we'll make...We are not to be stopped, you and I...Forgive me the fear, if I thought I could lose you to them-forgive me the doubt, they'll never reach you- I'll never be afraid for you again..." Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Pretty much anything ever written by EE Cummings or Charles Bukowski.
"Promise me you'll never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave." Pooh Bear.
"Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts." I don't remember.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, I'M GOING TO MAKE SOME FANMIXES. ANY REQUESTS?
"He suddenly recalled the famous myth from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we lost.
Let us suppose that such is the case, that somewhere in the world each of us has a partner who once formed part of our body. Tomas's other part is the young woman he dreamed about. The trouble is, man does not find the other part of himself. Instead, he is sent a Tereza in a bulrush basket. But what happens if he nevertheless meets the one who was meant for him, the other part of himself? Whom is he to prefer? The woman from the bulrush basket or the the woman from Plato's myth?"
It's from The Unbearable Lightness of Being, one of my favorite books by Milan Kundera.
Some honorable mentions:
"It's real for us," and "Always." Severus Snape.
"It is because they have never seen you. I would recognize you anywhere." The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.
"Not the things that are, but the things we'll make...We are not to be stopped, you and I...Forgive me the fear, if I thought I could lose you to them-forgive me the doubt, they'll never reach you- I'll never be afraid for you again..." Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Pretty much anything ever written by EE Cummings or Charles Bukowski.
"Promise me you'll never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave." Pooh Bear.
"Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts." I don't remember.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, I'M GOING TO MAKE SOME FANMIXES. ANY REQUESTS?