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The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
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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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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, How are you, you old scoundrel! clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
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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 book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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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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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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The truth is an anagram of an anagram.
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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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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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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.
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Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
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My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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Simple mechanisms do not love.
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Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
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If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to dissolve harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
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At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call to constantly into question the very tale we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.
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