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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. Illustrated QuoteGeek card.

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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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“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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