The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impress…

Umberto Eco
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The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea. ✨ Umberto Eco (1995). Name of the Rose, p.329, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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