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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
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 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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What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.
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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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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
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He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
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He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
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The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.
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The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
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A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.
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I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.
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All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
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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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Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!
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