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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.
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the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.
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[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.
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