Love

The boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros- the boundary of flesh ad self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realise I never can.

Anne Carson, Eros the BitterSweet

When I desire you a part of me is gone: my want of you partakes of me. The presence of want awakens in him [the lover] a nostalgia for wholeness. His thoughts turn towards questions of personal identity: he must recover and reincorporate what is gone if he is to be a complete person.

Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

An incredible expression of a counter argument to the ‘my other half’ idea in romantic relationships. What is it to feel incomplete without the one you love, if you were whole before you met them? Carson summarises it stunningly

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