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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

Umberto Eco
Love, Inspirational, Relationship
Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Umberto Eco
Inspirational, Knowing, Intelligence
Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Umberto Eco
Inspirational, Funny, War
Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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