Name	Umberto Eco
Age	77
Date of Birth	January 5, 1932
Birthplace	Alessandria / Piemonte, Italy/
Star Sign	Capricorn
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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

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I felt like poisoning a monk.

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