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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, 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 believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
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I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.
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It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.
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You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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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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Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.
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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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I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.
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But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed? I asked, for no good reason. Is Jorge right? Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .
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I write what I write.
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And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.
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