Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flam…

Umberto Eco
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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. ✨ Umberto Eco (2006). The Island of the Day Before, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. ✨ Umberto Eco (2006). The Island of the Day Before, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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