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Quote by Umberto Eco
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmle

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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