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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
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I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.
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I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
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