A Quote by Khalil Gibran
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
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He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then 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.
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