Quote by Umberto Eco
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

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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In the United States theres a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. – Umberto Eco

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Success
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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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Nature
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Other Quotes from
Death
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. – Abbie Hoffman

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Death

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

Category:
Death

Yes, people pull the trigger – but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. – Eliot Spitzer

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Death

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. – Larry Wall

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Death

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Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them. – Author Unknown

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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. – Jackie Kennedy

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Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesnt work for many people. – Katherine Heigl

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Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. – Stan Kelly-Bootle

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