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The truth about eros is terrifying.

Seth Benardete

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I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.
— Stephen Fry
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Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.
— Plato
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Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
— George Eliot
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Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But 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 and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.
— Anne Carson
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There is no art without Eros.
— Max Frisch
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