He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were he… - Milan Kundera

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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.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · October 27, 2009 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Franco-Czech novelist born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).

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