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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David Thoreau
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My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
Umberto Eco
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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
Umberto Eco
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.
Umberto Eco
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
Umberto Eco
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.
Umberto Eco
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.
Umberto Eco
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
Umberto Eco
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Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
Umberto Eco
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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
Umberto Eco
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
Umberto Eco
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.
Umberto Eco
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Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
Umberto Eco
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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
Paul Auster
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Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.
Umberto Eco
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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
Karl Kraus
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The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?
Umberto Eco
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The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.
Umberto Eco
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
Umberto Eco
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
Umberto Eco
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
Umberto Eco
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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
Umberto Eco
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Umberto Eco
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