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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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 think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.
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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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New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past it passes out memories generously like a great lord it doesn't have to pursue the real thing.
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By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.
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The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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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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Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.
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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
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Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country
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Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.
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The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.
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A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.
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Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.
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The followers must feel besieged.
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Not bad, not bad at all, Diotallevi said. To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
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To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.
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