"There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever.……" — Jeffrey Eugenides
"There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person was two halves, one male, one female. Then these got separated. That's why everybody's always searching for their other half. Except for us. We've got both halves already."
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213 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
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