Then why do you want to know? Because learning does not consist only o…

Umberto Eco
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Then why do you want to know? Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. ✨ Umberto Eco (2014). The Name of the Rose, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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