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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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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
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The wise man does not discriminate he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
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To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.
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Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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The hand of God creates it does not conceal.
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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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Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
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The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.
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I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
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I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.
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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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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.
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A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.
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