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The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
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That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.
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