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Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes.
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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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I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.
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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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A secret is powerful when it is empty. People often mention the Masonic secret. What on earth is the Masonic secret? No one can tell. As long as it remains empty it can be filled up with every possible notion, and it has power.
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You cannot believe what you are saying. Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry.
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.
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Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
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For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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The poets did not win the philosophers surrendered.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.
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For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
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You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.
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Authors frequently say things they are unaware of only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
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