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A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
— Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016) · 1932-2016 · 114 kata bijak
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of t...
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