He divided each into two, so that they had now but two arms, two legs, and one head apiece, and thenceforward the human race became what it is to-day.

Consequently, each of us is only the half of a human being, divided from the other half, just as one divides a sole into two portions.

These halves are ever seeking their other halves.

The love which we experience for one another is nothing but an invisible force impelling us to reunite our two halves in order to re-establish ourselves in our pristine perfection.

Those men who result from the divisions of hermaphrodites love women; those women who have a similar origin love men.