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What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
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 discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).
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There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.
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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.
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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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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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If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.
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I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
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For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - le suggérer, voilà le rêve!).
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You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.
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Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.
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I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote I am that I am, for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.
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It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
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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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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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