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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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Umberto Eco
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they arent trying to teach us. – Umberto Eco

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Father
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Umberto Eco
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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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After your death you will be what you were before your birth. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. – Aeschylus

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. – Eugene Ionesco

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