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"What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?"

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“Translation is the art of failure”

Umberto Eco

“The name of the rose is a mere symptom of our nostalgia for a time when names meant something.”

“Sometimes you say things with a smiley face when you're really saying them with a frowny face”

“Love is wiser than wisdom.”

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