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How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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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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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.
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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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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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There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
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The poets did not win the philosophers surrendered.
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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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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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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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How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.
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Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
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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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For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
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