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Aristophanes' myth of split beings

In Plato's Symposium, Aristophanes describes humans as originally split beings searching for their missing half—a myth that romanticizes completion through union and remains deeply embedded in how we imagine love. It's useful to recognize this as one beautiful story rather than a blueprint, since it can make loneliness feel like ontological failure.

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