To be human was to be severed, mutilated. Man is incomplete. Zeus is a tyrant. Mount Olympus is tyranny. The work of humankind in its severed state is to seek the missing half. And after so many generations your true counterpart is simply not to be found. Eros is compensation granted by Zeus – for possibly political reasons of his own. And the quest for your lost half is hopeless.

Saul Bellow, Ravelstein (via wordsnquotes)

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