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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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One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.
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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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Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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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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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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The Devil is not the Prince of Matter the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.
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Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.
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It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.
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The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.
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The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.
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The poets did not win the philosophers surrendered.
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
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When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.
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The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
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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.
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Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
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