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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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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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A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.
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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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The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed? I asked, for no good reason. Is Jorge right? Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .
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