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Umberto Eco

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.

Umberto Eco

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The world is naturally mysterious and not dangerous on its own, but people make it frightening by trying too hard to find a single hidden meaning behind everything. This effort to force a clear truth onto complex reality creates confusion and fear where none needed to exist.

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