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The Celestina
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"The Celestina" Quotes

"The Celestina" is a Spanish novel that tells the tragic story of Calisto and Melibea's doomed love, orchestrated by the manipulative go-between, Celestina.

fiction | 178 pages | Published in 2006

Quotes

Love is a hidden fire, a pleasant sore, a delicious poison, a sweet bitterness, a delightful pain, a sweet and throbbing wound, a gentle death.

Fernando de Rojas

loveparadox

The greatest enemy of love is indifference.

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Those who do not risk, do not gain.

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Fortune is blind and does not see where it strikes.

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In adversity, it is easy to despair.

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What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

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lovemorality

Jealousy is born with love, but it does not die with it.

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The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.

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heartreason

The flame of love is not as easily extinguished as one might think.

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lovepassion

There is no love without pain.

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