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

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

Umberto Eco

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“I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.”
“There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.”

Source : "Camilla Luddington As Lara Croft" by James Fell, www.askmen.com.
“Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that? It is a time to celebrate sweet bounty, as the harvest is brought in. It is a time of excitement and pleasure for children before the dark sets in. We should all celebrate that.”
“One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.”
“I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.”
“Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.”
“The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.”
“A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.”

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