But now I have come to believe that the whole

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But now 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. - Umberto Eco

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Italian semiologist and novelist, 1932+

Born:5th January, 1932
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Starsign: Capricorn

Author Keywords: Novelist, Semiologist, Italian

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