Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose
“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
Variant: She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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