I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless e…

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 (2007). Foucault's Pendulum, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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