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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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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
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Books always speak of other books.
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We live for books.
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A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.
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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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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
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Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.
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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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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
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