But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depicti…

Umberto Eco
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But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects. ✨ Umberto Eco (1995). Name of the Rose, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects. ✨ Umberto Eco (1995). Name of the Rose, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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