He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware th…

Umberto Eco
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He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death. ✨ Umberto Eco (2007). Foucault's Pendulum, p.594, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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