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The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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 light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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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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