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www0935
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 Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:46 pm Post subject: Please help paraphrase a sentence. |
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Would someone please paraphrase the following sentence?
I was dying to tell him love, which exempts no one who's loved from loving.
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pugachevV
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Check your quotation or give us some context, please.
You don't tell people love. You speak of love or tell someone of love. |
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www0935
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:13 pm Post subject: The context of my question |
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The context is the following:
There is a law somewhere that says that when one person is thoroughly smitten with the other, the other must unavoidably be smitten as well. Amor ch'a null'amato amar perdona. Love, which exempts no one who's loved from loving, Francesca's words in the Inferno. Just wait and be hopeful. I was hopeful, though perhaps this was what I had wanted all along. To wait forever.
Would someone please paraphrase this sentence?
Love, which exempts no one who's loved from loving.
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pugachevV
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:53 am Post subject: |
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It is a translation of the original Italian.
It means this:
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| There is a law somewhere that says that when one person is thoroughly smitten with the other, the other must unavoidably be smitten as well |
If you love someone, then they must love you.
or -I really wanted to tell him I loved him and so he must love me.
Of course, there is no such law and very often the one you are in love with does not love you at all. |
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