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Absence is to love as wind to fire; it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
— Umberto Eco · The Island of the Day Before
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An editorial interpretation.
Wind can put out a small fire or make a large one burn more strongly. Distance is said to act the same way on love. The contrast suggests that time apart reveals the strength of a bond by either weakening or deepening it.
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