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Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
Umberto Eco
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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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Books always speak of other books.
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
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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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Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.
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I felt like poisoning a monk.
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.
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Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.
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Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
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I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.
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A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.
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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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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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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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I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.
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