Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and …

Umberto Eco
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. ✨ Umberto Eco (2007). Foucault's Pendulum, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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