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Seemed Quotes by Umberto Eco
- When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if…
- Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
- What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to…
- I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning (as the day…
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- I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing. — Scott Adams
- This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. — Simone de Beauvoir
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