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Umberto Eco
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libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands ✨ Umberto Eco (2011). The Prague Cemetery, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot. ✨ Umberto Eco (2007). Foucault's Pendulum, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC ✨ Umberto Eco (1995). How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands ✨ Umberto Eco (2011). The Prague Cemetery, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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