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

The Name of the Rose

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Dangers of love Nature of love Love

Author

Umberto Eco

Source

The Name of the Rose

Medium

Novel

Language

Italian

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Italy Europe

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Original Citation

Eco, Umberto. Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose]. Bompiani, 1980.

Current Citation

Eco, Humberto. The Name of the Rose, translated by William Weaver. HarperVia, 2014.

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

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John Updike
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Time
1983 1980s 20th century
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Updike, John. Hugging the Shore. Alfred A. Knopf, 1983, foreword.

Another quote about Love

What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star.

Sinclair Lewis

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Sinclair Lewis
Source
Elmer Gantry
Medium
Novel
Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1927 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 20.

Current Citation

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Another quote originally in Italian

Philosophy is written in this grand book-I mean the universe-which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth.

Galileo Galilei

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Mathematics

Author

Galileo Galilei
Language
Italian
Time
1623 1620s 17th century
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Original Citation

Galilei, Galileo. Il Saggiatore [The Assayer]. Rome, 1623.

Current Citation

Galilei, Galileo. "The Assayer." Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo. Doubleday & Company, 1957.