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The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.
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 book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
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Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
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The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.
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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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What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
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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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I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
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What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.
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The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar queen, alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.
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When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.
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Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.
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The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
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