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Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
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 only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
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A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.
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If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.
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I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.
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I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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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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All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
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But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
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Today I realize that many recent exercises in deconstructive reading read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.
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My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.
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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 only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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