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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - [Truth] If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity. - [Credulity] The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. - [Heroes] That was when I was the Pendulum. - Foucault's Pendulum (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] "And what's your name?" - The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] It was a beautiful morning at the end of November. During the night it had snowed, but only a little, and the earth was covered with a cool blanket no more than three fingers high. In the darkness, immediately after lauds, we heard Mass in a village in the valley. Then we set off toward the mountain, as the sun first appeared. - The Name of the Rose [Books (First Lines)]
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