You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world pr…

Umberto Eco
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You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day. ✨ Umberto Eco (2007). Foucault's Pendulum, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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