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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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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

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Storytelling
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. – Umberto Eco

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All architects want to live beyond their deaths. – Philip Johnson

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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. – Alexander Smith

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I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. – Nancy Reagan

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon

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