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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

What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.

Umberto Eco
Love, Heart, Men
Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

Umberto Eco
Love, Pain, Laughter
"The Island of the Day Before". Book by Umberto Eco, 1994.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco
Love, Lying, Passion
Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.527, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.

Umberto Eco
Love, Fall, Needs
Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.

Umberto Eco
Love, Attitude, Past
Umberto Eco (1984). “Postscript to The name of the rose”, Harcourt

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