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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

Other quotes by Umberto Eco

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries…. – Umberto Eco

Category:
Storytelling
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Umberto Eco
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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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Truth
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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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Other Quotes from
Death
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Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected. – Julius Caesar

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Death

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. – Lao Tzu

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Death

I simply cant build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again. – Anne Frank

Category:
Death

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. – Ernest Hemingway

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Death

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Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up. – Glenn Beck

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War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. – Benito Mussolini

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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. – Diane Arbus

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[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity… like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral… – Coleman Barks

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