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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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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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Authors frequently say things they are unaware of only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
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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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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
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Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
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You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
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A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.
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Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.
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Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
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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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To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
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Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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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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The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.
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I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
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