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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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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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The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.
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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.
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I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.
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How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!
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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
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A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
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I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
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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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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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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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Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.
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But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.
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A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
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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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