the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which wou…

Umberto Eco
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the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life. ✨ Umberto Eco (2006). The Island of the Day Before, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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