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.
on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
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