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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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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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I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.
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I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
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When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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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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And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
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My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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