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We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.
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I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?
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