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Quote by Umberto Eco
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men wh

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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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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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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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. – Jean De La Bruyere

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