If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him. - Milan Kundera

He suddenly recalled 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 have lost.

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone

فخ الكراهية هو أنه يجعلنا ننجدل على نحوٍ لصيق جداً مع خصمنا. هذا هو فُحْشُ الحرب: حميمية الدم المسفوك في كلا الجانبين، والقُرب الشهواني لجنديَّين يخترق كلٌّ منهما الآخر برصاصه، وعينه في عينه.