#platonic

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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They see nothing indecent in sexual intercourse, whether heterosexual or homosexual, and indulge in it quite openly, in full view of everyone. The only exception was Socrates, who was always swearing that his relations with young men were purely Platonic, but nobody believed him for a moment, and Hyacinthus and Narcissus gave first-hand evidence to the contrary. ↗

— Lucian of Samosata

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I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts. ↗

— Russell Brand

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People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America. ↗

— Isabel Lucas

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To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato. ↗

— Edgar Jepson

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I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there. ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

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But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself. ↗

— David Levithan

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For love is a celestial harmony Of likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent, Which join together in sweet sympathy, To work each other's joy and true content, Which they have harbour'd since their first descent Out of their heavenly bowers, where they did see And know each other here belov'd to be. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

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