I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it…

Umberto Eco
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I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it. ✨ Umberto Eco (2007). Foucault's Pendulum, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it. ✨ Umberto Eco (2007). Foucault's Pendulum, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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