“This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.”

—  Umberto Eco

Source: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library

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

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