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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
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I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
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We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.
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Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.
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Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.
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Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.
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What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.
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That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
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Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country
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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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If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.
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Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.
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It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.
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