Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh …

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 (2014). The Name of the Rose, p.527, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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 (2014). The Name of the Rose, p.527, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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