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The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
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The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
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All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
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When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.
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I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
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For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.
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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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When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.
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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
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For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
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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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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
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True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
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And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
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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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