Now we say that (a) the continuous is one or that (b) the indivisible is one, or (c) things are said to be “one”, when their essence is one and the same, as “liquor” and “drink”. If (a) their One is one in the sense of continuous, it is many, for the continuous is divisible ad infinitum.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
There is only one state – admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological – in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that “I” and “you” are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.
