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Heroic love is the property of those superior natures who are called insane (insano) not because they do not know (no sanno), but because they over-know (soprasanno).

— Giordano Bruno Disputed

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The Italian original is from Francesco de Sanctis, Storia della letteratura italiana, 1871/1890, p. 255: "L'amore eroico è proprio delle nature superiori, dette insane, non perché non sanno, ma perché soprasanno..."

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