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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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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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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.
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Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.
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the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.
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Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.
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Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
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The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
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but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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I love the smell of book ink in the morning.
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All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty. People often mention the Masonic secret. What on earth is the Masonic secret? No one can tell. As long as it remains empty it can be filled up with every possible notion, and it has power.
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The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.
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Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.
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I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.
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