“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 Eco 120
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic… 1932–2016Related quotes
“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“I expect this to be my last venture in this field; 'tain't worth the grief”
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!”
“The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.”
"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.
Essays, The Other Six Deadly Sins (1941)
