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I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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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.
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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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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, How are you, you old scoundrel! clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.
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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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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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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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Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?
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Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.
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When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.
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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
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