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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.
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A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.
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