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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
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 comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.
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He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.
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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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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
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