After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what wa…

Umberto Eco
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After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes? ✨ Umberto Eco (1995). Name of the Rose, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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