“When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.”

—  Umberto Eco, book The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Source: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

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Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic… 1932–2016

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