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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. -

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. – Umberto Eco

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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. – Umberto Eco

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History
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Umberto Eco
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. – Umberto Eco

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Learning
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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go. – Jean de La Fontaine

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Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem. – Joseph Stalin

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . – Woody Allen

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To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it. – C.G. Jung

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