“I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.”

"On the Disadvantages and Advantages of Death" in La mort et l'immortalié, edited by Frédéric Lenoir (2004)

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

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“I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.”

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