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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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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 only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
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Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?
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Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.
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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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I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
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I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom
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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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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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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.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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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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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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