“ You tell us, sir, that love proceeds like a physical movement, not differently from the way wine flowers; but you do not tell us why love, unlike other phenomena of matter, is an elective virtue, which chooses. For what reason, then, does love make us slaves of one creature and not of another? ”
Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before (1994). copy citation
Author | Umberto Eco |
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Source | The Island of the Day Before |
Topic | virtue love |
Date | 1994 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by William Weaver |
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