You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing—you can always repent, atone—but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.
 Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum (1988). copy citation

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Author Umberto Eco
Source Foucault's Pendulum
Topic remorse life
Date 1988
Language English
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Note Translated by William Weaver
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