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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
There's something so great about platonic intimacy.
She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.
I went to the prom with a girlfriend of my sister's, a platonic date.
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.
I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.
I do believe men and women can share healthy, long-lasting platonic relationships.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction.
I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.
I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.
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.
For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.
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.
I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.
I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether, and my job is to find what that book is through my editing.
There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love I've experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that there's this other love out there.
If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas, of the big nouns, and believed that one's life was determined by the ideas of the true, the good, and the beautiful which one held.
My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.
So many of my favorite stories, in any medium, are about friendship. Those relationships are so often just as emotional and complex as any romantic or family dynamics, and yet there's a dearth of resonant, grounded films about platonic bonds in American films.
That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.
