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Umberto Eco [1932-2016] Italian Novelist
Quote rank: 203

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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

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Death, Experience, Fear

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