For love is the desire of the whole, and the pursuit of the whole is called love.
 Plato, Symposium. copy citation

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Author Plato
Source Symposium
Topic love desire
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Language English
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Note Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1600/1600-h/1600-h.htm

Context

“But if Hephaestus were to come to them with his instruments and propose that they should be melted into one and remain one here and hereafter, they would acknowledge that this was the very expression of their want. For love is the desire of the whole, and the pursuit of the whole is called love. There was a time when the two sexes were only one, but now God has halved them,—much as the Lacedaemonians have cut up the Arcadians,—and if they do not behave themselves he will divide them again, and they will hop about with half a nose and face in basso relievo.” source