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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.
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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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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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but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.
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A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.
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For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - le suggérer, voilà le rêve!).
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He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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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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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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Is it possible to say It was a beautiful morning at the end of November without feeling like Snoopy?
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Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.
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My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
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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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Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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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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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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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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