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I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning. So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.
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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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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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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
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The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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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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By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.
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Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.
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The Devil is not the Prince of Matter the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.
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A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
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There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
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An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.
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The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.
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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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I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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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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