Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in t…

Umberto Eco
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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely. ✨ Umberto Eco (2007). Foucault's Pendulum, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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