“Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.”
Source: The Island of the Day Before
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Umberto Eco120
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic… 1932–2016Related quotes
“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“I expect this to be my last venture in this field; 'tain't worth the grief”
Robert A. Heinlein book Grumbles from the Grave
Response to efforts to censor his first novel, Red Planet
Grumbles from the Grave (1989)
“The love of God is the kind of love that doesn't expect to be loved!”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"Baruch Spinoza", as translated in Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Marrano of Reason (1989) by Yirmiyahu Yovel
Context: Time carries him as the river carries
A leaf in the downstream water.
No matter. The enchanted one insists
And shapes God with delicate geometry.
Since his illness, since his birth,
He goes on constructing God with the word.
The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer
Essays, The Other Six Deadly Sins (1941)
