If jealousy is born from intense love, he who does not feel jealousy of the beloved is not a lover, or he loves lightheart-edly, for we know of lovers who, fearing their love will fade, nourish it by finding reasons for jealousy at all costs.
 Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before (1994). copy citation

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Author Umberto Eco
Source The Island of the Day Before
Topic jealousy fear
Date 1994
Language English
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Note Translated by William Weaver
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