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Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.
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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 monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?
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I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
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In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.
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Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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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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I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.
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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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I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.
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Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.
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On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?
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If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to dissolve harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
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I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
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Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
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The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.
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But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed? I asked, for no good reason. Is Jorge right? Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .
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Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.
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A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.
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