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Umberto Eco Inspirational Quotes (339)

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The wise man does not discriminate he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
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You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.
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To survive, you must tell stories.
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I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
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This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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Then why do you want to know? Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
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A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.
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A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.
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I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
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Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
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I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
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The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
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For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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