The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope …

Umberto Eco
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The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is. ✨ Umberto Eco (1995). Name of the Rose, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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