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NUMBER: | 18407 |
QUOTATION: | Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. |
ATTRIBUTION: | Umberto Eco (b. 1932), Italian semiologist, novelist. Brother William, in Seventh Day: Night (2), The Name of the Rose (1980, trans. 1983). |
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