• 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.

  Source: De slinger van Foucault (2007) 104

  Umberto Eco
  Italian writer and critic 1932-2016
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1. underlying
2. terrible
3. attempt
4. though
5. truth

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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. by : Umberto Eco

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