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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.
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The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
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Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
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Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
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[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.
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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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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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Is it possible to say It was a beautiful morning at the end of November without feeling like Snoopy?
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