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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.
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 function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
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Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
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Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
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If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
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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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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
Umberto Eco
Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.
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Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes.
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