We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's…

Umberto Eco
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die. ✨ 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'. Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.
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