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Umberto Eco Inspirational Quotes (339)

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[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.
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I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays
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[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.
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Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
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The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
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I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).
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If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.
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But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
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New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past it passes out memories generously like a great lord it doesn't have to pursue the real thing.
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Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
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A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.
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Today I realize that many recent exercises in deconstructive reading read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.
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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom
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The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.
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If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
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Then we are living in a place abandoned by God, I said, disheartened. Have you found any places where God would have felt at home? William asked me, looking down from his great height.
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Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.
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A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.
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