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All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.
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Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
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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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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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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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History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.
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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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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
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Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
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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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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.
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The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.
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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 more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
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What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.
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How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
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I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
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