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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 write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts therefore it is dumb.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.
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When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.
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You don't fall in love because you fall in love you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.
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Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.
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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.
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I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
Umberto Eco
He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.
Umberto Eco
Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.
Umberto Eco
In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.
Umberto Eco
The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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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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I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote I am that I am, for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.
Umberto Eco
The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
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