"And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
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Selected Quotes of Umberto Eco
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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"He said 'You think so?', in such a manner as to imply he didn't.
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