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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we too would become Taliban.
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I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.
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This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.
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For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
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It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.
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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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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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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.
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When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.
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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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The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
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We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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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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